Date of Birth: 01/04/1844
Place of Birth: Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death: 14/11/1924
Place of Death: 'Murulla', near Wingen, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
| Segenhoe Estate Irrigation Bill Committee No.8 |
27 May 1891 |
02 Jun 1891 |
7 days |
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| Segenhoe Estate Irrigation Bill Committee No.45 |
16 Dec 1890 |
20 Dec 1890 |
5 days |
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| Redhead Coalmine Railway Act Amending Bill Committee No.19 |
03 Jul 1889 |
17 Jul 1889 |
15 days |
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| Member for Upper Hunter |
04 Feb 1889 |
06 Jun 1891 |
2 years 4 months 3 days |
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| Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly |
04 Feb 1889 |
06 Jun 1891 |
2 years 4 months 3 days |
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Qualifications, occupations and interests
Pastoralist. Educated at The King's School, Parramatta, and briefly at Sydney Grammar School. At 16 he took over the family property at Wingen. Gradually converted leasehold to freehold, acquiring one of the most valuable runs on the upper Hunter. By 1890, his Abbotsford estate, incorporting Glengarry and Murralla stations, had 21,000 sheep and 100 cattle on 30,000 acres. Author of:'Notes of a Journey on the Darling, 1881'Essays Political and Scientific, 1890
'Poems', 1892 'The Rabbit Pest and the Balance of Nature', 1913 'Mount Wingen and the Wingen Coal Measures', 1918
Honours Received
Member Royal Society of New South Wales 1877-1924, awarded its bronze medal in 1884
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Personal
Second son of John Kingsmill Abbott, squatter, and Frances Amanda Brady. Unmarried. Church of England faith.
Additional Information
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7
John Merritt, That Voluminous Squatter: W. E. Abbott, Wingen, Turalla Press,
1999
