{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{for-multi|the locomotive|Victorian Railways S class|the English cricketer|Edward Henty (cricketer)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Edward Henty | image = EdwardHenty.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1810|3|28|df=y}} | birth_place = Tarring, Sussex, England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1878|8|14|1810|3|28}} | death_place = Melbourne, Colony of Victoria }}
'''Edward Henty''' (28 March 1810 – 14 August 1878),<ref name=adb>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |author-link=Marnie Bassett |last=Bassett |first=Marnie |id2=henty-edward-2247 |title=Henty, Edward (1810 - 1878) |volume=1 |year=1966 |pages=531-534 |access-date=2023-01-03}}</ref> was a pioneer British colonist and is regarded as the first permanent settler in the Port Phillip district (later known as the colony of Victoria), Australia.
==Early life and family background== Edward was born in Tarring, West Sussex, England, the fourth surviving son of Thomas Henty, and his wife Frances Elizabeth Hopkins of Poling, West Sussex.<ref name=adb/> His father inherited £30,000 and bought a plot of land and bred high value Merino sheep, some of which were purchased by capitalist entrepreneurs in the Australian colonies such as John Macarthur. After an economic downturn hit England in the mid 1820s, Edward's eldest brother James Henty thought that better opportunities for the family existed in Australia. In 1829 James travelled to the Swan River Colony with two other brothers, Stephen and John. Edward remained in Sussex, studying and assisting his father with his business interests there.
==Van Diemen's Land== Edward's brothers in the west of Australia had a difficult time obtaining grants to productive land and decided to move to Launceston in Van Diemen's Land where their prospects would likely improve. In the meanwhile their father, Thomas Henty, decided to bring the rest of the family to the Australian colonies, selling most of his assets in England and sailing for Launceston. He arrived in April 1832 with Edward and the three remaining siblings Charles, Jane and Francis.<ref name=adb/> <!-- The content formerly in this paragraph was removed; the remaining text hidden below is not a copyright violation but does not make sense without the context of the content removed, and so has been hidden until the event someone would like to add proper context to it. ==Portland== The second vessel brought Francis Henty, who landed on 11 December and in course of time Stephen Henty and Thomas Henty followed. Sheep were fetched across from Tasmania, pastures occupied, houses erected and land cultivated.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5944286 |title=Mr Edward Henty |newspaper=The Argus |date=15 August 1878 |access-date=10 February 2012 |page=7 |via=Trove}}</ref> The Henty brothers also engaged on bay whaling at Portland in the 1830s. The whale oil and baleen taken from southern right whales was shipped to Tasmania for export to London.<ref>{{cite book |first=Lynette |last=Peel |title=The Henty Journals; a record of farming, whaling and shipping in Portland Bay, 1834-1839 |location=Melbourne |year=1996 |pages=58–61}}</ref> --> ==Affiliations== *TS Henty, Australian Navy Cadets *Victorian Railways S class locomotive S302 ''Edward Henty''
==See also== *Henty brothers *Whaling in Australia
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==References== * Hurse, J. Lewis (1933), "Venture and Adventure: The Romantic Story of the Henty Family" **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51832363 "'''No.1'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Monday, 31 July 1933), p. 8.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51832505 "'''No.2'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Tuesday, 1 August 1933), p. 5.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51832687 "'''No.3'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Wednesday, 2 August 1933), p. 9.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51832928 "'''No.4'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Friday, 4 August 1933), p. 9.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51833480 "'''No.5'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Wednesday, 9 August 1933), p. 3.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51833608 "'''No.6'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Thursday, 10 August 1933), p. 10.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51833951 "'''No.7'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Monday, 14 August 1933), p. 8.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51834396 "'''No.8'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Thursday, 17 August 1933), p. 8.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51834961 "'''No.9'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Tuesday, 22 August 1933), p. 9.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51835488 "'''No.10'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Saturday, 26 August 1933), p. 9.] **[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51835787 "'''No.11'''", ''The (Launceston) Examiner'', (Tuesday, 29 August 1933), p. 8.] *Jan Critchett, (1990), ''A distant field of murder: Western district frontiers, 1834–1848'', Melbourne University Press (Carlton, Vic. and Portland, Or.) {{ISBN|0-522-84389-1}} *Ian D Clark (1990) ''Aboriginal languages and clans: An historical atlas of western and central Victoria, 1800–1900'', Dept. of Geography & Environmental Science, Monash University (Melbourne), {{ISBN|0-909685-41-X}} *Ian D Clark (1995), ''Scars in the landscape: A register of massacre sites in western Victoria, 1803–1859'', Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (Canberra), {{ISBN|0-85575-281-5}} * Ian D Clark (2003) ''‘That's my country belonging to me’ – Aboriginal land tenure and dispossession in nineteenth century Western Victoria'', Ballarat Heritage Services, Ballarat. * The Gunditjmara People with Gib Wettenhall, (2010) ''The People of Budj Bim: Engineers of aquaculture, builders of stone house settlements and warriors defending country'', em Press, Heywood (Victoria)
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090602102925/http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/portphillip/inter/6892.shtml Images and transcripts of Edward Henty's journal] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20071124075608/http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/portphillip/inter/7468.shtml manifest of cargo on board the ''Thistle''] at the State Library of Victoria {{S-start}} {{s-par | au-vic-la}} {{S-new |parliament}} {{s-ttl | title= Member for Normanby | years=1856–1861}} {{S-aft| after= George Levey}} {{s-end}}
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