Hussey Burgh Macartney (10 April 1799 – 8 October 1894) was the

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from 1852 until his death. The son of

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and his second wife Catherine Burgh (daughter of the eminent but short-lived judge

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), he was born in

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, Ireland, and educated at

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. He was

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in 1823 and was a

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and Killashee. After this he held incumbencies at

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and

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. In 1847 he sailed to

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with Charles Perry, the first Bishop of Melbourne. Perry made him

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in 1848 and

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of Melbourne’s new cathedral,

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, four years later. St James was the Anglican cathedral church until

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was consecrated in 1891. In regard to the colonisation of Australia, Macartney was quoted as saying that

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"were not the rightful owners of the soil" and had "not been unjustly dispossessed by the white man". Macartney was married to Jane Macartney (), who helped establish and manage various charitable institutions in Melbourne, often with Bishop Charles Perry's wife, Frances Perry. One son, Hussey Burgh Macartney, junior, was vicar of St. Mary's Anglican Church Caulfield, Victoria, for 30 years. Another was John Arthur Macartney, a Queensland pastoralist. A grandson, Hussey Burgh George Macartney, was a captain in the Royal Fusiliers who was injured in the Boer War and died in the Great War. A great-grandson,

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, was a noted newspaper editor and media figure in Western Australia. Macartney died in

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, Australia on 9 October 1894.

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