Archibald Clunes Innes
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Archibald Clunes Innes was a soldier and pastoralist from Thrumster, Caithness, Scotland. When he arrived in Australia in 1822 he was a captain in the Third Regiment, on the ship Eliza, in charge of 1
Major Archibald Clunes Innes, ca. 1813
In colonial Australia, particularly in the early to mid-19th century, squatting was the occupation of large tracts of Crown land, typically to graze livestock, without formal legal title. Although squ
Archibald Clunes Innes
…River near Rollands Plains. Major A. C. Innes owned Innestown on the Manning River and Yarrows (Yarras) on the Hastings River. He was one of the first squatters in the New England district when, in 1836, he held Waterloo Station. Some of his other New England properties included Kentucky Station, Beardy Plains…
Archibald Clunes Innes, a prominent squatter in the colony of New South Wales, silhouette by W.H. Fernyhough, 1836
Colonial artist S. T. Gill supports Aboriginal land rights and condemns the Squattocracy in Squatter of N. S. Wales: Monarch of all he Surveys, 1788 (above) and Squatter of N. S. Wales: Monarch of more than all he Surveys, 1863 (below).
Warfare between squatters and Aboriginal people in South Australia
1845 political cartoon by Edward Winstanley, critical of Governor George Gipps' land reforms