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
University of Sydney
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The University of Sydney is a public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities
William Wentworth
…and universal education, he participated in the creation of the state education system and legislated to establish Australia's first university, the University of Sydney. During the 1840s, Wentworth ended his previous support for free-settler migration and expressed more restrictive views on voting rights, though he…
The University of Sydney as viewed from Parramatta Road in the early 1870s
The Sydney University Regiment forming a guard of honour for the visit of the Duke of York (later George VI) to the university in 1927
Charles Perkins Centre
The Great Hall, with a statue of founder William Charles Wentworth in the foreground