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	John MacArthur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Macarthur (wool pioneer) (1767-1834), an Australian 18th- and 19th-century wool industry pioneer.
		John D. MacArthur (1897–1978), an American philanthropist, founder of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
		John Seward MacArthur, inventor of the MacArthur-Forrest Process for gold cyanidation in Glasgow, Scotland in 1887.
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	John Macarthur (wool pioneer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Macarthur (1767-1834), soldier, politician and pioneer of the Australian wool industry, was born in Devon, but the MacArthurs are an old Argyll family, from which the American military hero General Douglas MacArthur was also descended.
		Macarthur quarrelled with successive governors and most of his neighbours, and in 1801 he was sent to England for court martial after being involved in a duel.
		Wool was such a commodity, and it had a ready market in England because the Napoleonic Wars had cut English cloth-makers off from their traditional source of quality wool, Spain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Macarthur_(wool_pioneer) (688 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Mc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macarthur in reply wrote to the governor complaining that he had been grossly insulted, and stating that Atkins could be proved to be "a public cheater, living in the most boundless dissipation, without any visible means of maintaining it than by imposture on unwary strangers".
		Macarthur was unable to obtain a copy of the letter for some time but when he did the old fires revived, and he wrote an abusive and insulting letter to Field who quite properly took no notice of it.
		In 1839 James Macarthur was nominated to the legislative council and in 1859 was elected to the legislative assembly.
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		John Couch Adams was born in the parish of Laneast, on Bodmin Moor, and, as an astronomer and mathematician, became the co-discoverer of the planet Neptune.
		John Arnold was born in Bodmin in 1736 and was apprenticed to his father at an early age as a watchmaker.
		John Arnold was the leading chronometer maker of his day; his contribution to solving the problem of measuring longitude was very important and he was responsible for many improvements to the manufacture of watches and chronometers.
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	John Macarthur (wool pioneer) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation John Macarthur (wool pioneer) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Macarthur (wool pioneer) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation John Macarthur (wool pioneer).
		John Macarthur (1767-1834), soldier, politician and pioneer of the Australian wool industry, was born in Devonshire, but the MacArthurs are an old Argyll family, from which the American military hero General Douglas MacArthur was also descended.
		In 1792 the acting Governor, Francis Grose, appointed him paymaster and inspector of public works, and gave him a land grant at Parramatta, west of Sydney, where he and his highly capable wife Elizabeth farmed successfully.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/John-Macarthur-wool-pioneer.html (652 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - John MacArthur
		Macarthur, John (1767-1834), Australian soldier, pioneer pastoralist, and instigator of the Rum Rebellion.
		MacArthur, John D. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, philanthropic organization created in 1978 upon the death of its founder, insurance executive John D....
		Bligh was later sent to London, where he successfully defended his policies, but he was not restored to his governorship.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /John_MacArthur.html (104 words)

	127famous_chaffees, Chaffe, Chaffee, Chaffey, Chafee, Chafe Lineage - 1016-1900 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Chafe (1585-1619) of Exeter was married to Anne Mayho of Cornwall in 1610.
		John Winthrop sold all he had to contribute to the venture, and during the planning of the voyage became recognized as a leader of the Puritan colony.
		John was in the Battle of Quebec in 1759 and was later a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
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	Dictionary of Australian Biography P-Q (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Parkes then engaged as a labourer with Sir John Jamison (q.v.) near Penrith at £25 a year and a ration and a half of food, principally rice, flour and sugar, for the meat was sometimes unfit to eat.
		He was generally in favour of (Sir) John Robertson's (q.v.) land policy, of the extension of education, and of free trade.
		He was friendly with John Macarthur (q.v.) and acted as his second in the duel with Paterson (q.v.) in September 1801.
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	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::
		The group of mutineers included John Macarthur (wool pioneer) John Macarthur as one of the leading personalities.
		Macarthur avoided his punishment due as a traitor to the Crown and in 1817 returned to Australia and expanded his already established wool business.
		Rum Rebellion : A Study Of The Overthrow Of Governor Bligh By John Macarthur And The New South Wales / by H.V. Evatt.
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	Parramatta City Council : Library - Parrakidsmatta - Parramatta people and places (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Macarthur was given a land grant at Parramatta on 12 February 1793.
		John Macarthur was born in England on 18 August 1767.
		John became famous as a big landholder and businessman in the colony, and wanted the colony of NSW to export wool.
	www.parracity.nsw.gov.au /library/parrakidsmatta/peopleplaces.shtml (1896 words)

	Early Australian Currency
		Macarthur sued, claiming the exact number of bushels expressed on the face of the note, irrespective of value.
		Macarthur took the decision as a personal affront, setting in motion a chain of events which would eventually undermine Bligh's standing as Governor and see him ousted in the Rum Rebellion.
		Macarthur openly defied the orders leaving Bligh with no choice but to respond by arresting Macarthur and sending him to trial on a number of charges ranging from illegal possession of a still to sedition and resisting arrest.
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	John MacKenzie - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation John MacKenzie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John MacKenzie was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
		On 6 June 1900 at Dompoassi, Ashanti (now Ghana), Sergeant Mackenzie, after working two Maxim guns under heavy fire and being wounded while doing so, volunteered to clear the stockade of the enemy, This he did, most gallantly, leading the charge himself and driving the enemy headlong into the bush.
		John MacKenzie was commissioned as Second-Lieutenant in the Black Watch in 1900 and became a Captain in the Royal Scots on 22nd January 1904.
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	Walkabout - Taralga
		John Macarthur rewarded Throsby with 1 000 acres and by 1824 Macarthur's son James and his nephew Hannibal had established themselves in the Taralga region where they helped pioneer Australia's wool industry.
		A private village was established on land donated by James Macarthur and cleared by convicts in order to house and service members of the Macarthur family and their employees.
		Fine wool, beef cattle, fat lambs, potatoes, dairying, berries and vineyards are the mainstays of the local economy while marble is extracted from a quarry to the north-east (see entry on Wombeyan Caves)
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/NSWTaralga.shtml (1143 words)

	visit camden
		John Macarthur named the estate Camden Park, and it was here he made a major contribution to growing the merino wool empire that became a world standard for more than a century and a half.
		Today, the Macarthur region is made up of the vibrant townships of historic Camden, cosmopolitan Campbelltown and rural Wollondilly, and is home to a community of more than 200,000 people.
		Macarthur has a unique blend of heritage charms, scenic natural surrounds and modern city delights, and offers a truly exceptional tourism experience.
	www.camden.nsw.gov.au /page/macarthur_region1.html (304 words)

	The Wine Industry of Australia 1788 1979
		John Macarthur (1767-1834), the great pioneer and publicist of the wool industry, with his sons James (1798-1867) and William (1800-1882) had toured France, Switzerland and northern Italy in 1815-16 with the express purpose of studying viticulture and collecting vine types.
		Early plantings were unsuccessful and the Macarthur brothers nearly gave up, but when it became evident that much of their imported collection was spurious and that grape varieties and not soil types were the cause of failure they began to make progress.
		Sir John Jamison (1776-1844), 'the hospitable Knight of Regentville', made between 1400 and 1800 gallons of wine in 1834 which was stored in well-built underground cellars; his vineyard near Penrith, according to one authority, was the largest in the colony and 'readily realised above 30 pounds a pipe' for its produce.
	coombs.anu.edu.au /SpecialProj/ERIC/wia.html (6340 words)

	"M" Famous People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macquarrie, John (1919-) Theologian and philosopher of religion, born in Renfrew, Renfrewshire...
		Marston, John (1576-1634) Playwright and satirist, born in Wardington, Oxfordshire, SC England...
		Masefield, John (Edward) (1878-1967) Poet and novelist, born in Ledbury, Hereford and Worcester...
	www.jonathanselby.com /Mfam (17547 words)

	Australian Discovery, edited by Ernest Scott
		Gregory BlaxIand, the leader of the expedition, was the younger brother of John BlaxIand, and the two had come to Australia in 1806 as settlers who had obtained land grants from the Secretary of State on condition that they invested a stipulated amount of capital in the colony.
		Edward John Eyre--who was later to become famous as Governor of Jamaica--in 1841, accompanied by only one white man, Baxter, and three aboriginals, faced immense difficulties in a waterless waste on an expedition of more than three months between South and Western Australia.
		The pioneer in Gippsland exploration was Angus Macmillan, a Scottish Highlander who came to Australia in 1838, and found employment with a squatter, Lachlan Macalister, who had a sheep-station near Goulburn.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /pgaus/ausdisc/ausdisc2-intro.html (7446 words)

	April 11 - Today in Science History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		English aviation engineer and pilot who was a pioneer in the field of jet propulsion, which he used to develop aircraft that could fly at faster speeds and higher altitudes than piston-engine propeller airplanes of the 1920s.
		Menzel was one of the first practitioners of theoretical astrophysics in the United States and pioneered the application of quantum mechanics to astronomical spectroscopy.
		American zoologist who contributed substantially to the study of eugenics (the improvement of populations through breeding) and heredity and who pioneered the use of statistical techniques in biological research.
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	OutBack - Legends Of The Outback (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In every case, the feats of these outback pioneers are truly extraordinary and inspiring, putting into context the difficulties faced in the development of the outback.
		Arriving in the fledgling colony of New South Wales in 1790, John Macarthur rapidly made an impact as a pastoralist and laid the groundwork for a booming wool industry.
		As a nation we owe a great deal to those pioneering aviators who were at the forefront of this great endeavour.
	www.outbackmag.com.au /home.asp?pageid=0F41A14FAC3E3145&issuesectionid=282D6DB8F93B42AC (714 words)

	Lieutenant-General Sir Edward MACARTHUR
		MACARTHUR, Sir EDWARD (1789-1872), was born on 16 March 1789 at Bath, England, the eldest son of Captain John Macarthur a pioneer of the Australian wool industry).
		While visiting New South Wales on business in 1824 Macarthur was impressed by the dispersion of the garrison from Moreton Bay to Hobart Town in the face of runaway convicts and 'hostile tribes'.
		In 1858 Macarthur chaired a royal commission on the defences of the colony.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-heroes/macarthur.htm (428 words)

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		John Flynn was born on 25 November 1880 at Moliagul, near Bendigo, Victoria.
		It was largely the result of her work that John Macarthur was awarded a gold medal for the greatest quality of fine wool imported from New South Wales in 1821, and a second for the finest sample of wool from the colony, by the Royal Society of Arts in London.;
		Macarthur's society I experience the tenderest affections of a husband, who is instructive and cheerful as a companion.
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	Scotland and the Victorian West
		A chemist, MacArthur discovered the cyanide process, a means of extracting gold from discarded mine tailings, and brought the science to Colorado’s Crestone Mine, in Saguache County, in 1889.
		Their lack of size could probably be traced to centuries of inbreeding, while the thin wool was largely due to the tradition of keeping sheep indoors during the winter months.
		Their father, John, served as greenkeeper at a number of Scottish courses, including Carnoustie, and all five of his surviving sons became American golf professionals.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/world/victorian_west.htm (10143 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		David Blair in his Cyclopaedia of Australasia, published in 1881, leaned heavily on Heaton and added little to his work, but Philip Mennell's The Dictionary of Australasian Biography from the Inauguration of Responsible Government, which appeared in 1892, had many good qualities and, though not free from errors, is usually reliable.
		It was a pity, however, that the author restricted himself to the period mentioned, and that one consequently finds no account in his book of Phillip, Macquarie, Macarthur, and many other remarkable men belonging to the early days of Australia.
		Johns was careful and conscientious and seldom fell into error.
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	Australia's First Piano
		Orchard is of course referring to Elizabeth, intrepid wife of pioneer woolgrower and egotistical trouble-maker John Macarthur.
		Today Elizabeth Macarthur (1766-1850) is recognised in her own right, having played a crucial part both in John’s success as a farmer and in the social life of the fledgling settlement.
		By the 1820s the Macarthurs had become the biggest land owners in New South Wales, and while her primary objective had always been to ensure that her family was well provided for, along the way Elizabeth Macarthur helped establish Australia's wool industry.
	www.bikwil.com /Vintage20/Australia's-First-Piano.html (1968 words)

	Belgenny Farm Wool Centre - 28/10/1998 - PRIV
		During the early part of 1995 the members of the trust, in recognition of the pioneering role John Macarthur played in the development of the Australian merino fine wood industry at Camden Park, resolved to investigate the possibility of constructing a wool centre of national significance.
		The study strongly supported the construction of a major wool centre to facilitate the presentation, preservation and teaching, in an entertaining manner, of the past, present and future of the Australian wool industry and its significant impact on the development of Australia for Australians and visitors to our country.
		The wool centre is expected to have a staff of between 80 and 100 people.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA19981028043 (677 words)

	Bulletin - The 125 moments that changed Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nine years later, a small flock of Spanish merinos, famous for their heavy, fine fleece, is imported from South Africa by two British officers and bought by pioneer pastoralists (among them John Macarthur) who begin crossing them with other breeds.
		Macarthur brings in more merinos and in 1807 sends one bale of wool to England.
		Wool exports to England begin in 1821 and for several generations Australia rides the sheep’s back, with the flock peaking in 1970 at about 120 million.
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	history
		John served as a commissioner for the suppression of monasteries in reign of Henry IV.
		The rebellion was led by one John Macarthur, a pioneer and wool merchant, originally from Stoke Damerel, Devon, who became a leader of the settlers.
		John, who by then had taken the name and arms of Curwen, attempted to actively save the reputation of his family by darkening the name of Bligh, who, then, had the sympathy of almost the entire British public.
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	William Bligh
		The Bligh family were resident in the parish of St. Tudy from at least 1680 and a John Bligh (or Blygh) of Bodmin was a commissioner for the suppression of monasteries in the reign of
		In 1805, Bligh was sent to New South Wales as Governor, but once again his oppressive manner contributed to an uprising, in Sydney in 1808 –; the Rum Rebellion – he had attempted to end the use of rum as a form of currency.
		The rebellion was led by one John Macarthur, a pioneer and wool merchant originally from Stoke Damerel, Devon, who became a leader of settlers in New South Wales.
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