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Coffee jug and stand awarded to the Reverend S Marsden by the agricultural society of New South Wales 1825

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Marsden, Samuel

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Coffee

Coffee grew in the garden at the first Government House but Sydney remained predominantly a tea-drinking colony. Despite the efforts of temperance campaigners to replace alcohol with coffee, coffee drinking remained a minority pleasure until after World War II, when coffee-loving migrants arrived in great numbers.

Agriculture

Clubs and Societies

Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales

Organisation formed to promote the future of agriculture through competition, education and events.

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Marsden, Samuel

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Anglican chaplain who used his extensive landholdings to promote the sheep industry but is equally remembered for his extreme severity as a magistrate.