D'Arcy Wentworth

D' Arcy Wentworth (* February 14, 1762 in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland, † July 7, 1827 in Homebush, suburb of Sydney, Australia ) was a soldier, medic, official and original landowners in the British penal colony of New South Wales.

Early life

D' Arcy Wentworth was the sixth of eight children of D' Arcy Wentworth and his wife Martha Dickson. The Wentworth came from an English aristocratic family. Before the young Wentworth struck a medical career, he served as a soldier in the First Armagh Company in Ireland. About Wentworth is reported that he was highly appreciated by his fellow citizens, and that he was in financial difficulties. He was accused of the triple highway robbery and acquitted on 12 December 1778 in two cases of liability and in the third case for lack of evidence. He referred to himself from the start as innocent and announced at the beginning of the hearing that he would leave immediately after the verdict to Australia with the Second Fleet as an inspector the country.

Emigration

The Second Fleet took off in England on 19 January 1790. On the ship he was talking to a female convict in their teens, Catherine Crowley, a love relationship. Wentworth came on the ship Neptune on June 28, 1790 in Port Jackson on. On 1 August 1790, he and Catherine Crowley took off on the ship Surprize to Norfolk Iceland. Before the Surpize arrived in August to Norfolk Iceland, William Charles Wentworth was born, one of the discoverers of the crossing of the Blue Mountains. On Norfolk Iceland, he worked in a hospital and on September 10, 1791 he was appointed inspector of convicts. As he walked back to Sydney in February 1796 he was appointed on April 7, 1796 Criminal Inspector Ling Ling the entire criminal colony of New South Wales. Subsequently, he served in various functions in three medical centers in Norfolk Iceland, Sydney and Parramatta before he held the post of chief surgeon of the civil medical department of New South Wales in February 1809.

Professional life

In addition to his duties as a physician, Wentworth dedicated to the public, economic and political life after his own interests and pursued ruthlessly its interests. In 1809 he was dismissed from his post as chief surgeon without explanation by Acting Governor William Bligh. Then Wentworth played a significant role in the so-called Rum Rebellion, initiated a coup against the Governor Bligh, because this land assignments of the colonial government - including the lands - checked and intended rückzuübereignen if necessary. Bligh intended to also stop the illegal trade in rum, which had developed into an unofficial currency in New Soth Wales, operated the officers of the New South Wales Corps and Wentworth. In 1810, Wentworth and two other men by Governor Lachlan Macquarie was awarded the contract to build the so-called Rum Hospital in Sydney. As consideration for the construction of Wentworth was awarded two licenses for the sale of rum; a Rum Hospital and the other in a street of Sydney. This provided a multiple of the cost of hospital construction. Wentworth was doing further services for the police and in 1810 he was commissioner who oversaw the collection of road tolls from Sydney to Parramatta.

D' Arcy was one of the first shareholders and directors of Australia's oldest bank, the Bank of New South Wales. It was founded in 1817 and is now part of the Westpac Banking Corporation.

Also, the acquisition of land he was torn and successful as him 3.73 km ² of land was handed over to the north of Homebush, an area near Strathfield. When he died he had acquired lands of 543.2 km ².

Others

According to him, the suburb is named Wentworthville in Sydney.