Joseph Harpur

Joseph Jehosephat Harpur (1810 – 2 May 1878) was an Australian politician.[1]

Harpur was born in 1810 in the Hunter River district of New South Wales,[2] to Joseph Harpur and Sarah née Chidley.[3] His father was originally from Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, and was parish clerk and master of the Windsor district school while his mother was from Somerset. Both had been transported. One of his brothers was the poet Charles Harpur.[4]

He was a public servant and clerk, and active in radical and temperance movements. In 1861 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Patrick's Plains at a by-election, but he did not re-contest in 1864.[5]

Harpur died in Sydney in 1878 (aged 67–68).[1][2]

References
  1. "Mr Joseph Jehosephat Harpur (1810-1878)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  2. "Obituary: the late Mr J J Harpur". The Sydney Morning Herald. 10 May 1878. p. 8. Retrieved 9 January 2021 – via Trove.
  3. Normington-Rawling, J (1966). "Harpur, Joseph Jehoshaphat (1810–1878)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 1. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  4. Normington-Rawling, J (1966). "Harpur, Charles (1813–1868)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 1. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  5. Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Patrick's Plains". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 January 2021.

 

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