William Wentworth

A detailed Summary of William Wentworth

The reason that I picked William Charles Wentworth was because he was very important to the way we live today in two ways, the first was opening up new grazing lands by going over the blue mountains, but most importantly the way the government system was set up to today. William Charles Wentworth was born in 1790 Norfolk Island and died in 1872. Wentworth was educated in England at the University of Cambridge. He studied law in Sydney. Wentworth is best known for crossing the Blue Mountains in 1813 and finding new grazing lands, but he should be best known for what he did for the convicts and the development of the government systems in Australian that are still used today. He also led the convicts fight to overcome the political supremacy exercised by government officials and voluntary settlers against them.

In 1842 New South Wales became the first Australian colony to be granted representative government , largely as a result of Wentworth's efforts. A member of the Legislative Council formed that same year; he helped obtain a formal constitution for the colony in 1854. Meanwhile, in 1850, he was responsible for passage of the bill founding the University of Sydney. He led the upper house of the Australian parliament in 1861. A

lthough he wanted self-rule for British colonies, as a wealthy land owner he disapproved of the growing democracy in Australia which had made it one of the most advanced political systems in the British Empire, and in 1862 he settled in England. Wentworth is often called the Australian patriot.

The work that Wentworth should be best known for is what he did for the governments. Wentworth wrote a book looking at the government then; in this book he attacked the autocrats. In this book he put forward what he thought should be in place the main thing that he should be in place was the self-rule government. As well he thought that ex-convict should be aloud to vote or to be a member. In 1823 Wentworth was involved in was getting the law in which "insured that the legislative council was voted for as well as permitted trial by jury in civil action only determined by both parties" There was early arguments that Wentworth got into about the government of Australia, but after this there was a little laps and he wasn't to concerned with the government. Over time Wentworth got many supporters, there were many times were he was asked to be on the legislative council but he kept refusing. When in 1834 Wardell died, William bland stepped into his position; William was the chief supporter of Wentworth. In 1835 the foundation was formed it as called Australian Patriotic Association, it was formed to and Wentwor

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