Mr William Edward ABBOTT (1844 - 1924)

Date of Birth: 01/04/1844
Place of Birth: Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death: 14/11/1924
Place of Death: 'Murulla', near Wingen, New South Wales, Australia

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Parliamentary Service

Position	Start	End	Period	Parliament
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly	4 Feb 1889	6 Jun 1891	2yr(s) 4mth(s) 3day(s)
Member for Upper Hunter	4 Feb 1889	6 Jun 1891	2yr(s) 4mth(s) 3day(s)	14th (1889 - 1891)
Redhead Coalmine Railway Act Amending Bill Committee No.19	3 Jul 1889	17 Jul 1889	15days	14th (1889 - 1891)
Segenhoe Estate Irrigation Bill Committee No.45	16 Dec 1890	20 Dec 1890	5days	14th (1889 - 1891)
Segenhoe Estate Irrigation Bill Committee No.8	27 May 1891	2 Jun 1891	7days	15th (1891 - 1894)

Community Activity

Member of Council of the Pastoralists' Union 1890. President from 1894-1897, 1900-1910. President Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia in 1891.

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Pastoralist. Educated at The King's School, Parramatta, and briefly at Sydney Grammar School. At 16 he took over the family property at Wingen. Gradually converted leasehold to freehold, acquiring one of the most valuable runs on the upper Hunter. By 1890, his Abbotsford estate, incorporting Glengarry and Murralla stations, had 21,000 sheep and 100 cattle on 30,000 acres. Author of:'Notes of a Journey on the Darling, 1881'Essays Political and Scientific, 1890 'Poems', 1892 'The Rabbit Pest and the Balance of Nature', 1913 'Mount Wingen and the Wingen Coal Measures', 1918

Honours Received

Member Royal Society of New South Wales 1877-1924, awarded its bronze medal in 1884

Personal

Second son of John Kingsmill Abbott, squatter, and Frances Amanda Brady. Unmarried. Church of England faith.

Additional Information

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7 John Merritt, That Voluminous Squatter: W. E. Abbott, Wingen, Turalla Press, 1999

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