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Robert Leake (Australian politician)

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On the death of Robert, his brother Edward inherited Glencoe Station of 53,000 acres (21,000 ha), carrying 53,000 sheep, 3,500 cattle and 300 horses. He was responsible for building a magnificent new woolshed designed by W. T. Gore and accommodating 36 shearers on the board, it is now National
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Edward John Leake (died 27 April 1867) married Letitia Amanda Clarke on 31 July 1854. She had a son 3 October 1862; she married again, to Richard McCarthy on 19 November 1870.
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sheep to be brought to the Southern Hemisphere. He was appointed by the South Australia Company to oversee in 1836 the flock they were importing into their new colony.
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Robert Rowland Leake and his brother Edward John Leake (1812–1867) emigrated with their parents John and Elizabeth Leake to
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Robert Leake married Ruth Hickmer in 1853. She married again, to Henry William Thirkill on 3 January 1867.
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The Baron of the Frontiers : South Australia-Victoria, Robert Rowland Leake (1811-1860)
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as squatters and eventually Robert became owner of the
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Index

Tasmania
Saxon Merino
South-East of South Australia
Glencoe
Lake Leake
Adam Lindsay Gordon
House of Assembly
Victoria
John Riddoch
George Riddoch
ISBN
978-0-7256-0105-8
"Robert Rowland Leake"
Parliament of South Australia
"Glencoe woolshed"
"Photo gallery"
Categories
Members of the South Australian House of Assembly
Australian pastoralists
Australian sheep breeders
1811 births
1860 deaths
19th-century Australian politicians
19th-century Australian businesspeople

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