Arthur Jeffreys (1 October 1811 – 13 September 1861) was an English-Australian politician.
He was born in
Barnes
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in
Surrey to the Reverend John Jeffreys. He migrated to
New South Wales
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in 1839, and later purchased land near
Queanbeyan
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at
Acton. He also owned land in
Sydney, notably at
Canterbury
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and
Kirribilli.
In 1851 he was elected unopposed as the member for the
Pastoral District of Maneroo in the
New South Wales Legislative Council
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,
and resigned in February 1854.
[
He married Sarah Campbell, daughter of Robert Campbell, on 17 February 1841; they had four children, one of whom, Arthur Frederick Jeffreys, was later a member of the British House of Commons.]Bright's disease
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in 1861 at Hastings
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east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west a ...
in Sussex.[
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References
1811 births
1861 deaths
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council
19th-century Australian politicians
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