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Magistrate, Station Manager, Pastoral Superintendent, at Bathurst and Stroud, New South Wales, then Queensland stations.
On his 85th birthday in 1894 he was lost with 124 others when the New Zealand-bound Wairarapa struck Great Barrier Island and sunk.
At his father's early death in January 1818 James was 8 years old. With his siblings he came under the Guardianship of Charles Edward Layard.
"He was educated in England and was to have entered the Army. However, a delay in his commission meant that he was passed his age, so he returned to his Guardian and his plantations."
"He arrived in Sydney in 1830 as Private Secretary to Sur Edward Oarry, Chief Commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Society, and resided first at Stroud, and afterwards at Port Stephens. He was with the late J S More for some years, and was offered a partnership with Mr Cameron. He, however, went back to the A A Company, and succeeded the Hon P G King as Assistant General Superintendent, after which he went to Queensland and joined Mr Robert Tooth in his five stations, residing at Jondaryan for many years."
In 1837 he married firstly Sarah Elizabeth Hoddle, daughter of Robert Hoddle, the first Surveyor General of Victoria, Australia. They had issue three sons, Robert Hoddle Driberg White, James Charles White Jr, and a third son who died in infancy. She died after childbirth in 1841.
In 1848 he married secondly Ann Macansh, daughter of Ann White and Dr John Macansh of Edinburgh. They had issue three sons and one daughter: John Stuart White, Ann Charlotte White, William Thomas White and Charles Edward White.
Upon the death of his sister Charlotte Elizabeth Hagger in 1862, he became the legal Guardian of her five orphaned children, Mary, Augusta Georgina, William, Frederick and Hannah.
"He spent the latter part of his life residing with his sons in Queensland and New Zealand."
From 1867-94 White was supported by his eldest son and visited his children in New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand.
"He was an active strong man, and left Sydney on the 24th October in the best of health."
"On 29 October 1894, his 85th birthday, he was lost with 124 others when the New Zealand-bound Wairarapa struck Great Barrier Island and sunk. He was said to have given up his chance of rescue for someone 'who still had their life to live'."
"White was stern, imperious and unyielding; he attracted controversy. In a duel with a bench colleague at Bathurst, White declined to return his opponent's fire because he had been drinking all night and was not 'fair game'. His report in 1854 on the use of the Port Stephens estate was partly responsible for an unfair view of P P King as the A A Co's commissioner. He was also said to have falsely accused Arthur Hannibal Macarthur of theft at Goomburra in the late 1850s. In 1862, in the suit Beit v Zahn, White's alleged packing of the Drayton-Toowoomba bench to secure Zahn's conviction angered many. His posting at Warwick in 1866 was probably terminated by the political in-fighting of squatter-politicians."
James Charles White (1809-1894), by David Denholm, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1976 (accessed online 7 Apr 2019).[1]
Obit 2 Nov 1894, SMH, References to Passengers, Mr J C White.[2]
Death reg 1894/5475 James Charles White, age 85, NZBDM.[3]
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