Hussey Macartney
Hussey Burgh Macartney (10 April 1799 – 8 October 1894[1][2]) was the Dean of Melbourne[3] from 1852 until his death.[4][5]
The son of Sir John Macartney, 1st Baronet, he was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[6] He was ordained in 1823 and was a curate in Banagher, Killoe and Killashee. After this he held incumbencies at Creagh and Kilcock.[7] In 1847 he sailed to Australia with Charles Perry, the first Bishop of Melbourne.[6] Perry made him Archdeacon of Geelong in 1848 and Dean of Melbourne’s new cathedral four years later.
Macartney died in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 9 October 1894.[7]
One son, Hussey Burgh Macartney, junior, was vicar of St. Mary's Anglican Church Caulfield, Victoria, for 30 years. Another was John Arthur Macartney, a Queensland pastoralist.
A grandson, Hussey Burgh George Macartney, was a captain in the Royal Fusiliers who was injured in the Boer War and died in the Great War.
A great-grandson, Jim Macartney, was a noted newspaper editor and media figure in Western Australia.
References
- ↑ "Obituary", The Times (London, England), 9 October 1894, p. 4.
- ↑ thePeerage.com
- ↑ Mahalo
- ↑ The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, Hamilton & Co 1889
- ↑ "The Very Rev. Hussey Burgh Macartney Ninetieth birthday", The Blackburn Standard and Weekly Express (Blackburn, England), 13 April 1889, p. 2.
- 1 2 Mennell, Philip (1892). "
Macartney, Very Rev. Hussey Burgh". The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. Wikisource - 1 2 Robin, A. De Q. "Macartney, Hussey Burgh (1799–1894)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
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Dean of Melbourne 1852–1894 |
Succeeded by George Oakley Vance |