Charles stuart australian dictionary biography of williams

          William Stewart (), soldier and lieutenant-governor, was the son of William Stewart of Caithness, Scotland, and grandson of Donald Stewart of Appin.

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        2. Sir Charles Stuart Burnett (), air force officer, was born on 3 April at Browns Valley, Minnesota, United States of America.
        3. Charles Napier Sturt (28 April – 16 June ) was a British officer and explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia.
        4. William Arthur Callendar, J.P., eldest son of the late Sir William a'Beckett (q.v.), was in the Legislative Council of Victoria from to , and held.

          5. Sir Charles Stuart Burnett (), air force officer, was born on 3 April at Browns Valley, Minnesota, United States of America....

          The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Sturt, Capt. Charles

          ​Sturt, Capt.

          Charles, who is justly regarded as the greatest of Australian explorers, entered the army at an early age, and went with his regiment, the 39th, to Sydney, where, in 1828, he was selected by Governor Darling to head an expedition which he had determined to send out to further explore the Macquarie river.

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          Finding no trace of the inland sea marked down on Oxley's (the previous explorer's) chart, the party, which included Hamilton Hume as second in command, took a more northerly course, and in Feb. 1829 discovered what they named the Darling river, and subsequently also what is now known as the Bogan.

          Still determined to penetrate the mystery of the inland sea, Sturt decided to solve the problem by tracing the course of the Murrumbidgee to its source. Accordingly, in 1829, he started on that second expedition, which, Mr. Blair not inaptly says, "commenced the history of the Australian colonies," bein