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 1853, and a member of Convocation. He entered at the Middle Temple on May 29th, 1852; and was called to the bar on Jan. 26th, 1858. He was a revising barrister and author of a "Handbook of the Constitution." In 1883 he was appointed Attorney-General of Western Australia with a seat in the Executive and Legislative Councils. He resigned in 1886 owing to a dispute with the Governor, Sir F. Napier Broome, but still resided in Western Australia, and in 1892 was appointed third judge of the Supreme Court.

Henty, Edward, the pioneer settler of Victoria, was the third son of Thomas Henty, of West Tarring, Sussex, England, banker and farmer, and Frances Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Joseph Hopkins, and was born at West Tarring on March 10th, 1809. His father, at the commencement of the present century, was one of the half-dozen breeders of merino sheep in England, having secured his blood at the sale of the flock presented to George III. by the King of Spain. The foundation of the Swan River settlement in Western Australia in 1829 turned the attention of Mr. Thomas Henty to the subject of colonisation, and he determined to send his sons James, John, and Stephen George to explore the country, with the idea of following himself, with the rest of his family, the Government having promised him a grant of 80,000 acres. He accordingly chartered a vessel, the Caroline, and put on board labourers and their families, twelve months' supply of provisions, and valuable stock and appliances for establishing an agricultural and pastoral settlement. The party sailed in May 1829, and duly arrived at Perth, where Mr. James Henty purchased land for the purpose of locating the families, stock, etc., in his charge, until he could obtain suitable grants from the Government. Mr. Henty, sen., was about to follow, with the rest of his family, when, in 1830, he received advices from James that he and his brothers saw no prospect of doing good in West Australia, and had determined to proceed to Launceston, in Tasmania. This information entirely altered the plans of the father, who accordingly, with his wife and sons, Edward and Francis, followed them to Van Diemen's Land in the Forth of Alloway, a vessel carrying emigrants, valuable stock, etc. They arrived in April 1831, and settled down. A twelvemonth, however, sufficed to disillusionise Mr. Edward Henty with his prospects in the island, and he determined to cross Bass' Straits, and seek suitable land on the southern shores of the continent of Australia. He left Launceston in the barque Carnarron in 1832, and landed at Memory Cove, in Spencer's Gulf, and afterwards at Port Lincoln, in South Australia, places discovered by Flinders. He remained there looking for a location, until he was called for, as arranged, by the brigantine Thistle, on her way from Swan River to Tasmania. On the passage back he anchored in Portland Bay, in what is now Victoria, which place so took his fancy that he returned in the Elizabeth from Launceston, and a more extended examination of the country determined him to form a settlement there. Before doing so he and his father again visited Portland in the Thistle, on their way to Swan River, to settle about the land Mr. Thomas Henty held there, and which he agreed with James Henty in condemning. In Oct. 1834, having completed his arrangements, Mr. Edward Henty sailed in the Thistle, Captain Liddle, and conveyed to Portland labourers, cattle, farming implements, fruit-trees, vines, seeds, etc., landing at 8 a.m. on Nov. 19th, 1834, after a tempestuous passage of thirty-four days. In the first two years of the settlement the Thistle was regularly employed bringing over sheep, cattle, horses, and provisions, which clearly proves that all residents in and about Launceston, including Batman and Fawkner, who were afterwards asserted to be the first settlers, were perfectly aware of the settlement being formed by the Hentys in what is now known as Victoria. The very fruit-trees planted by Mr. Edward Henty at Portland were purchased from Fawkner, who at that time kept a nursery garden on Windmill Hill, Launceston. A month after the first arrival Mr. Edward Henty landed the first pure merino sheep, and at the same time (Dec. 14th) his brother Francis paid him a visit and remained a month. Shortly afterwards the brothers joined their fortunes, and achieved much success in the gradual settlement of the beautiful Wannon country, where they 228