Source:
Parliament of New South Wales Online
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Son of Darcy Wentworth, principal surgeon at Sydney Hospital, and Catherine Crowley; brother of William Charles Wentworth, also a member of the first Legislative Council and later a Member of the Legislative Council. When he was six, his mother died and his father changed his son s name from Dorset Crowley to D Arcy Wentworth. Married Elizabeth Macpherson, third daughter of the late Major Charles Macpherson, barrack-master general for Scotland, on 27 April 1826 at St Cuthbert s Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh. There were no children of the marriage.
Source:
Under a Tropical Sun (Online)
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Military History - Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 21 February 1811[by purchase]; Lieutenant (73rd) 9 August 1812; Captain (73rd) 7 April 1825 [without purchase]; (63rd Foot) 10 July 1828; Major (63rd) 3 November 1837; half-pay (unattached) 1 December 1837; retired (by sale) 27 December 1842. Served in NSW/VDL: 1811-1814. Served in Ceylon: 1814-1820. Arrived: Colombo, on the Earl Spencer 25 March 1814. Died: 21 July 1861, in Launceston (Tasmania).
First Name:
Major Darcy and Eliza
Place:
Cambridge Terrace, London
Source:
The Mercury (Hobart)
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Death - On April 8, at 21 Cambridge Terrace, London, Eliza, the widow of Major Darcy Wentworth, late of H.M. 73rd Regiment, and daughter of Major Charles Macpherson, Barrackmaster-General, Edinburgh
Surname:
Wentworth (obit.,)
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DEATH. DIED at his Estate of Home-bush, Aged 65, after a severe attack of Influenza, universally regretted, D'Arcy Wentworth, Esq. the oldest Magistrate in the Colony, many years Surgeon-General, Colonial Treasurer of the Colony, and Chief Police Magistrate of Sydney; all of which important offices he filled with singular credit to himself, and satisfaction to the public, of all classes and degrees.- We feel real grief in recording the death of such a man as Mr. Wentworth. He was a lover of freedom; a consistent steady friend of the people; a kind and liberal master; a just and humane Magistrate; a steady friend; and an honest man. Mr. Wentworth's talents were not brilliant, but they were very solid. To a great measure of prudence- and caution, he joined a stern love 0f independence. He was a lover of liberty, on whom the people could rely. He was one of the greatest land-holders in the Colony, and perhaps the wealthiest man. But he considered his possession as calling upon him the more to support the true welfare of the people by maintaining their rights. Therefore, whenever the Colonists wanted a friend to address the King, the Parliament, or the Governor, Mr. Wentworth never shrank from the station allotted to him by Providence. He felt that by his wealth, talents, and experience, he was the natural protector of the people's rights. He was therefore a steady attend- ant on all public conventions of the Colonists, and the first to place his name at the head of a Requisition to the Sheriff, when grievances required to be redressed, or the people wished to make certain things known to the Colonial or the King's Government. At the great dinner given by the people to Sir Thomas Brisbane, after some of the very principal Colonists had sent the Governor a message to de- cline the honour of his company, (a kind of political crisis in New South Wales) Mr. Wentworth accepted the Chair : by which act of patriotism he upheld the spirit of the people and did a public good which has been and will be attended with benefits that will be enjoyed, when their connexion with that incident will not be perceived, or will be forgotten. In short, considering the paucity of men of wealth in this Colony sincerely attached to the people, we consider Mr. Wentworth's premature death (for his looks bade fair for ten years longer, of life) a national loss
