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Macarthur, John (1767 - 1834) |
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| Soldier, Entrepreneur and Pastoralist | ||
| Born: 1767. Died: 11 April 1834 New South Wales, Australia. | ||
| John Macarthur was one of the first men in New South Wales to obtain Spanish Merino sheep from the Cape of Good Hope in 1797. He took specimens of fleeces from his flocks to England in 1802, wrote a Statement of the Improvement and Progress of the Breed of Fine Woolled Sheep in New South Wales (London, 1803) and was granted 5,000 acres of the best pasture land in the colony, to be increased by a further 5,000 if tangible results were forthcoming. |
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