William Wentworth
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William Charles Wentworth was an Australian statesman, author, explorer, lawyer, newspaper editor and pastoralist, who became one of the wealthiest and most powerful figures in colonial New South Wale
William Charles Wentworth, 1861–1862, Dalton's Royal Photographic Gallery
Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains
Wentworth's journal of the expedition
Earliest pictorial representation of the crossing from The Sydney Mail, 25 December 1880
Vaucluse House
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Vaucluse House is a heritage-listed residence, colonial farm and country estate and now tourist attraction, house museum and public park, formerly the home of statesman William Charles Wentworth and h
William Wentworth
…colony and growing his land holdings to over 7,000 acres. He purchased land at Vaucluse and rebuilt the existing house on the site into a mansion named Vaucluse House, which he moved into from Petersham. Wentworth also acquired property in Homebush. On 26 October 1829, Wentworth married Sarah Cox, a convict-descended…
Vaucluse House, Sydney
The eastern tower
The estate's gardens in the 1930s
Drawing Room