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Richard Lewis Jenkins (1815 – 13 August 1883) was a Welsh-born Australian politician. He was born at
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in Monmouthshire, the son of Richard Jenkins. A qualified medical doctor, he migrated to Sydney for health reasons in 1841. After settling in the
Hunter Valley The Hunter Region, also commonly known as the Hunter Valley, is a region of New South Wales, Australia, extending from approximately to north of Sydney. It contains the Hunter River and its tributaries with highland areas to the north and ...
, he married Mary Rae Johnstone, the daughter of the first magistrate. He bought land on the
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and Namoi rivers. In 1857 he returned to Sydney, and in 1858 he was elected to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House ...
for Liverpool Plains and Gwydir. Re-elected for Gwydir in 1859, he was defeated in 1860. He was an early advocate for compulsory universal public education. Jenkins died at
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in 1883.


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  {{DEFAULTSORT:Jenkins, Richard Lewis 1815 births 1883 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians