“ With a fellow barrister, Wardell, he started a newspaper, the Australian, in 1824, to advocate the cause of self-government and to champion the “emancipists”—the incoming class of ex-convicts, now freed and prospering—against the “exclusivists”—the officials and the more aristocratic settlers. With Wardell, Dr William Bland and others, he formed the “Patriotic Association,” and carried on a determined agitation both in Australia and in England, where they found able supporters. ”

“ He had done his work for colonial autonomy, and was becoming an old man, somewhat out of touch with the new generation. For some years before 1861 he stayed chiefly in England, where in 1857 he founded the “General Association for the Australian Colonies,” with the object of obtaining from the government a federal assembly for the whole of Australia; and in 1862 he definitely settled in England, dying on the 20th of March 1872. ”

“ WENTWORTH, WILLIAM CHARLES (1793–1872) , the “Australian patriot,” who claimed descent from the great Strafford, but apparently without sufficient reason, was born in 1793 in Norfolk Island, the penal settlement of New South Wales, where his father D’Arcy Wentworth, an Irish gentleman of Roscommon family, who had emigrated in 1790 and later became a prominent official, was then government surgeon. ”