Explorer, barrister, landowner and author who championed the emancipists and free settlers and campaigned for radical political reform.
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07 Aug 1790
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The first 'State funeral' in colonial New South Wales was accorded to William Charles Wentworth who died in England on 20 March 1872 and at his own behest, had his remains shipped back to Australia for burial - a fitting final gesture by the Australian 'patriot'
