William Pitt Faithfull, 1867 portrait by Myra Felton

William Pitt Faithfull (11 October 1806 – 24 April 1896) was an Australian politician and pastoralist.

He was born at Richmond to pioneer settler William Faithfull and Susannah Pitt. He attended school until the age of fifteen, when he left to work on pastoral properties. He was granted land on the Goulburn Plains in 1827 and ran a large sheep stud; he also bred sheep at Port Phillip in the 1840s.[1] On 20 January 1844 he married Mary Deane,[2] with whom he had eight children.[3] He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1846 to 1848, and again from 1856 to 1861. Faithfull died at Springfield on the Goulburn Plains in 1896.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Mr William Faithfull (1806-1896)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  2. ↑ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. XVII, no. 2086. New South Wales, Australia. 22 January 1844. p. 3. Retrieved 28 February 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Death of Mr. W. P. Faithfull". Goulburn Evening Penny Post. New South Wales, Australia. 25 April 1896. p. 2. Retrieved 28 February 2021 – via National Library of Australia.

 

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