About Richard Sadleir
Lived 1794 – 1889 (aged 94). Richard Sadleir was a politician and naval officer.
Richard Sadleir (6 May 1794 – 6 March 1889) was an Irish-born Australian politician.
He was born at Cork to landowner James Sadleir. Despite an intention to enter the church, he went to sea with the Royal Navy in 1808, travelling widely before returning to Ireland a lieutenant in 1821. In 1825 he migrated to New South Wales, and in 1829 he married Ann Cartwright. From 1826 he was a settler in the Hunter River, and from 1829 he was a schoolmaster at the Male Orphan School in Liverpool. In 1861 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Lower Hunter, but he did not re-contest in 1864. He was an alderman and the first mayor of Liverpool from 1872. Sadleir died at Liverpool in 1889. The Sydney suburb of Sadleir was named after him.
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Who was Richard Sadleir?
Irish-born Australian politician (1794-1889)
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Richard Sadleir was born on 6 May 1794 in Cork.
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Richard Sadleir died on 6 March 1889 in Sydney.
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Richard Sadleir was a politician and naval officer.
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