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Portrait of Robert Wardell, detail from marble tablet in St James church c1990

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Edwards, John

John Edwards is a Sydney-based historian and poet who has published books about Henry Louis Bertrand, Edward Baker Boulton and the Ryrie family.

Bark huts and country estates

In their drive to establish country estates and thriving industries in the Cooks River valley during the nineteenth century, European settlers exploited the water, timber and fertile soils of the Cooks River with little appreciation of the impact of their 'improvements'

Wardell, Robert

As founder of Australia's first independent newspaper, Robert Wardell's achievements have been much written about but his personal life - wound up with adultery, murder and disrepute - has been less well covered.

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Wardell, Robert

Barrister and newspaper publisher who was notorious for litigation and duelling, and was murdered by escaped convicts on his Petersham estate in 1834.

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