Mr Richard SADLEIR (1794 - 1889)**

Parliamentary Service

Position Start End Period Notes Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly 19 Jul 1861 10 Nov 1864 3yr(s) 3mth(s) 23day(s) Member for Lower Hunter 19 Jul 1861 10 Nov 1864 3yr(s) 3mth(s) 23day(s) 4th (1860 - 1864) The Governor’s Opening Speech Committee No.1 2 Sep 1861 2 Sep 1861 1day 4th (1860 - 1864) Chairman Reverend W.B Clarke Committee No.6 20 Sep 1861 20 Jan 1862 4mths 1day 4th (1860 - 1864) Benevolent Asylum, Sydney Committee No.8 27 Sep 1861 20 Jan 1862 3mths 25days 4th (1860 - 1864) Seamen Committee No.9 1 Oct 1861 20 Jan 1862 3mths 20days 4th (1860 - 1864) Presbyterian Church Temporalities Act of 1837 Committee No.17 1 Nov 1861 20 Jan 1862 2mths 20days 4th (1860 - 1864) Pilot Board Committee No.9 17 Jun 1862 7 Oct 1862 3mths 21days 4th (1860 - 1864) James Ralfe Committee No.22 5 Aug 1862 29 Aug 1862 25days 4th (1860 - 1864) Mr Charles Phillips Lawrence Committee No.19 5 Aug 1862 29 Oct 1862 2mths 25days 4th (1860 - 1864) Exchange of Land, Scots Church, Jamison-street, legalizing Bill Committee No.24 12 Aug 1862 14 Nov 1862 3mths 3days 4th (1860 - 1864) Botany Railway Company’s Bill Committee No.29 16 Sep 1862 25 Sep 1862 10days 4th (1860 - 1864) Alfred Witts Committee No.30 16 Sep 1862 21 Nov 1862 2mths 6days 4th (1860 - 1864) Fisheries Protection Bill Committee No.38 17 Oct 1862 20 Dec 1862 2mths 4days 4th (1860 - 1864) Chairman Pacific Fire and Marine Insurance Company’s Incorporation Bill Committee No.39 21 Oct 1862 24 Oct 1862 4days 4th (1860 - 1864) Waratah Coal Company’s Incorporation Bill No.45 2 Dec 1862 11 Dec 1862 10days 4th (1860 - 1864) Waratah Coal Company’s Incorporation Bill No.45 2 Dec 1862 11 Dec 1962 100yrs 10days 4th (1860 - 1864) Harbour Defences Committee No.6 1 Jul 1863 20 Oct 1863 3mths 20days 4th (1860 - 1864) Penal, Reformatory, and Charitable Establishments Committee No.8 8 Jul 1863 22 Apr 1864 9mths 15days 4th (1860 - 1864) Waratah Coal Company’s Incorporation Bill No.10 14 Jul 1863 17 Jul 1863 4days 4th (1860 - 1864) Mr John Busby Committee No.18 4 Sep 1863 24 Feb 1864 5mths 21days 4th (1860 - 1864) Chairman Exchange of Land, Scots Church, Jamison street, Legalizing Bill Committee No.16 4 Sep 1863 1 Apr 1864 6mths 29days 4th (1860 - 1864) Claim of Robert to Land in Illawarra Committee No.34 16 Feb 1864 11 Mar 1864 25days 4th (1860 - 1864) Queensland Steam Navigation Company’s Incorporation Bill Committee No.37 30 Mar 1864 31 Mar 1864 2days 4th (1860 - 1864) Sydney Water Reserves Committee No.31 2 Dec 1864 21 Apr 1864 4th (1860 - 1864)

Community Activity

Commissioned as a Justice of the Peace

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Retired schoolmaster. Educated privately and at Bandon Classical School. Aspired to church, but in 1808 joined the Navy. Served on European, African, American stations. Lieutenant in 1819. returned to Ireland in 1821. Arrived in New South Wales in 1825; Investigated the condition of Aborigines and their relations with settlers, beginning a life long interest in the subject. Granted 2,560 acres in Hunter River districts in 1826. Appointed Church of England. Master of Male Orphan School in Liverpool from 1829 until 1851. Ardent evangelical, arguing against Tractarianism in 1840s and Anglo Catholicism in 1880s; opposed clerical autocracy. Member of denominational school boards. Active in church administration and charities.

Local Government Activity

Alderman of the Liverpool Council from 1872; first Mayor of Liverpool 1872.

Personal

Son of James Sadlier a landowner and manufacturer near Bandon. Married Ann Cartwright in December 1829. Church of England.

Additional Information

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2 Sadleir Papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales The Liverpool City Council has a chronology of Sadleir's life on its website.

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