Joseph Harpur
Politician and journalist in New South Wales, Australia
About Joseph Harpur
Lived 1810 – 1878 (aged 67–68). Joseph Harpur was an Australian politician, journalist and civil servant.
Joseph Jehosephat Harpur (1810 – 2 May 1878) was an Australian politician. His father was originally from Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, and was parish clerk and master of the Windsor district school while his mother was from Somerset. Both had been transported. One of his brothers was the poet Charles Harpur.
He was a public servant and clerk, and active in radical and temperance movements. In 1861 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Patrick's Plains at a by-election, but he did not re-contest in 1864.
Harpur died in Sydney in .
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politician and journalist in New South Wales, Australia
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Joseph Harpur was born in 1810 in New South Wales.
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Joseph Harpur died on 2 May 1878 in Sydney.
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Joseph Harpur was a politician, journalist and civil servant.
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