John Macarthur
British army officer, entrepreneur, politician, architect and pioneer in Australia (1767-1834) · Australia · Founders · Died at 67
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Something wrong?John Macarthur was a British Army officer, landowner, and politician, best remembered as a key organiser of the 1808 Rum Rebellion and a pioneer of the Australian Merino wool industry.
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The Neptune of the Second Fleet
Painting of Elizabeth Farm by Joseph Lycett (c.1825)
An Australian stamp commemorating Macarthur and the wool industry
Propaganda cartoon of Governor Bligh's arrest during the Rum Rebellion
Macarthur's manor-house at Camden Park
John Macarthur was depicted on the 2 Australian dollar banknote
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John Macarthur was a British Army officer, landowner, and politician, best remembered as a key organiser of the 1808 Rum Rebellion and a pioneer of the Australian Merino wool industry. Born in England, Macarthur joined the nascent New South Wales Corps in 1789; he quickly established himself as a particularly unscrupulous, volatile, and entrepreneurial member of the so-called 'Rum Corps'.
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