Fellows of Senate

The original sixteen Fellows of Senate

On 24 December 1850, the announcement of the appointment of the following sixteen Fellows by His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, Knight Companion of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Territory of New South Wales, was published in the New South Wales Government Gazette.

• Above: Gazette supplement 24 December 1850. (University of Sydney Archives)

The original sixteen Fellows of Senate as published in the Gazette were:

The Reverend William Binnington Boyce
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Edward Broadhurst, Esquire
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John Bayley Darvall, Esquire
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Stuart Alexander Donaldson, Esquire
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The Right Reverend Charles Henry Davis
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Alfred Denison, Esquire

Edward Hamilton, Esquire
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James Macarthur, Esquire
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Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether, Esquire
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Charles Nicholson, Esquire
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Bartholomew O’Brien, Esquire

The Honourable John Hubert Plunkett, Esquire
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The Reverend William Purves
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His Honour Sir Roger Therry, Esquire
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The Honourable Edward Deas Thomson, Esquire (Colonial Secretary)
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William Charles Wentworth, Esquire
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