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First Prime Minister of Australia 1 January 1901 to 24 September 1903 |
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Sir Edmund 'Toby' Barton, GCMG, PC, KC, MA,, federationist, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a High Court Judge.
Edmund 'Toby' Barton was born on the 18th of January 1849 at Glebe, New South Wales (Australia), the third son and youngest child of William Giles Barton and his wife, Mary Louisa Whydah. [1] He was baptised on the 4th of July 1849 in St James' Church of England (now Anglican Church), Sydney, New South Wales. His older brother was George Burnett Barton.
Barton married Jane Mason Ross on the 28th of December 1877 in the Watt Street Presbyterian Manse, Newcastle, New South Wales. [2] The six children of Edmund Barton and Jane Mason Ross were:
Edmund Barton died on the 7th of January 1920, at 70 years of age, at the Hydro Majestic, Medlow Bath, in the New South Wales Blue Mountains, [9] and was buried in the Anglican Section of South Head General Cemetery, Old South Head Road, Vaucluse, New South Wales. [10]
Edmund Barton was educated at Fort Street Model School and Sydney Grammar School where he was dux and school captain. He earned B.A (1868) and M.A (1870) from University of Sydney and became a barrister.
He was elected to the New South Wales State Parliament in 1879, was Speaker of the House (1883-87) and Attorney General in 1889 amd 1891-93, when he emerged as the leader of the Federation movement.
He was appointed the first Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia as the head of a Liberal-Protectionist Govenment on 1 January 1901, serving until he was appointed one of the first justices of the High court (1903-20).
Edmund Barton's father, William, arrived in Sydney from London in 1827 as accountant to the Australian Agricultural Co, later working as a financial agent and sharebroker. William's father was a London perfumer, whose father had come to London from Exeter in Devon. Other surnames in the tree are Whyday, Synett, Gray and Ellis, about which little is known.
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