Australian Merino
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The Australian Merino is an Australian breed or group of breeds of sheep, forming a significant part of the Merino group of breeds world-wide. Its origins lie in Merino sheep imported to Australia fro
Head of a ram
Ewes and lambs
Champion ram, 1913
Hoggets being drenched near Walcha in New South Wales
John Macarthur was a British Army officer, landowner, and politician, best remembered as a key organiser of the 1808 Rum Rebellion and a pioneer of the Australian Merino wool industry. Born in England
Australian Merino
…Waterhouse and William Kent; approximately half the flock survived the voyage to Australia. Some stock from this shipment was sold to Elizabeth and John Macarthur of Elizabeth Farm in Parramatta. By about 1830, there were almost two million Merinos in the country. The original strain bred by the Macarthurs survives…
John Macarthur
The Neptune of the Second Fleet
Painting of Elizabeth Farm by Joseph Lycett (c.1825)
An Australian stamp commemorating Macarthur and the wool industry