William McGarvie (1810 – 1 April 1841) was a Scottish-born bookseller and newspaper owner, active in

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McGarvie, William (1810 - 1841)
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'', Volume 2, MUP, 1967, pp 166–167. Retrieved 28 August 2014 McGarvie was born in

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and worked on the ''

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''; he followed his brother

John McGarvie John McGarvie (1795 – 12 April 1853)Jean F. Arnot,, ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 2, MUP, 1967, p. 166. retrieved 2009-09-29 was a Scottish-born Australian Presbyterian minister and writer. Early life and education McGar ...

to New South Wales in 1828 aboard the ''Comet''. He then ran the 'Australian Stationery Warehouse'. With two employees from the ''

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'' Frederick Stokes and Alfred Ward Stephens, McGarvie imported a printing press in 1831 and commenced publication of the '' Sydney Herald''. Its first edition was on 18 April 1831. Soon afterwards, McGarvie sold his share to his two other partners. After a brief trip back to Scotland, McGarvie resumed bookselling at the Australian Warehouse. After contracting a severe cold, he died in Sydney aged 31 years and was survived by his wife, Isabella, and a three-week-old son. Isabella later remarried Dr Frederick Mackellar whose only son was

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, who in turn had a daughter, the poet

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