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George Barney

British colonial governor

Field	Value
name	George Barney
image	Lieutenant Colonel George Barney.jpg
caption	George Barney, 1860
birth_date
birth_place	Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
death_date
death_place	St Leonards, New South Wales
allegiance	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
branch	Board of Ordnance
branch_label	Branch
serviceyears	1808–1846
serviceyears_label	Years of service
rank	Lieutenant Colonel
rank_label	Rank
servicenumber	402
unit	Corps of Royal Engineers
commands	CRE, New South Wales, 1835–43
CRE, Athlone District, 1845
CRE, Woolwich, 1846
battles
*** Siege of Tarifa<ref name	"Hart1840"
** Capture of Les Saintes<ref name	"Hart1840"/
** Invasion of Guadeloupe<ref name	"Hart1840"/
battles_label	Campaigns
memorials	Memorial to Lieutenant Colonel George Barney, Bligh & Barney Reserve, The Rocks, Sydney
relations	Joseph Barney (father)
Maria Jane Scott (daughter)
laterwork	Colonial Engineer, 1835–44
Superintendent North Australia, 1846–47
Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands, 1849–55
Member of the Legislative Assembly, 1851–56
Surveyor General, 1855–59

CRE, Athlone District, 1845 CRE, Woolwich, 1846

Napoleonic Wars
- Peninsular War
  - Siege of Tarifa
- Capture of Les Saintes
- Invasion of Guadeloupe Maria Jane Scott (daughter) Superintendent North Australia, 1846–47 Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands, 1849–55 Member of the Legislative Assembly, 1851–56 Surveyor General, 1855–59

Lieutenant Colonel George Barney (19 May 1792 – 16 April 1862) was a military engineer of the Corps of Royal Engineers and became Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of North Australia.

Early life

George Barney was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, the son of Joseph Barney, drawing master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, England, and Jane, née Chandler (or Chambers). He entered the army at 16 as second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. He served in the Peninsular War and in the West Indies. He had several years experience of civil engineering in Jamaica. He was promoted to captain in 1825.

Career in Australia

From 1835 a number of Royal Engineer officers with a detachment of the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners were sent out to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, Australia. Captain George Barney, Commanding Royal Engineer of New South Wales, arrived at Sydney on the British Sovereign with his wife and three children on 15 December 1835. He was followed in by Lieutenant Henry Williamson Lugard, RE, on the Hive and Tamar on 16 December, and their Clerk of Works, George Graham, and his family in 1836.

Barney was appointed a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 17 July 1843, but resigned in August 1843.

Late life

Barney was appointed successively chief commissioner of crown lands on 1 January 1849, and Surveyor General of New South Wales on 11 October 1855. He was again appointed a member of the Legislative Council from 13 October 1851 to 29 February 1856. He was married to Portia Henrietta Peale. One of their daughters, Maria Jane Scott, was a painter and novelist.

He died at Sydney on 16 April 1862.

Legacy

Memorial to Lieutenant Colonel George Barney, RE, at The Rocks, Sydney

Barney's North Sydney house, Wotonga, was later acquired by the Commonwealth and, after extensions, became Admiralty House, the Sydney residence of the Governor-General of Australia.

There is a monument to George Barney in The Rocks, Sydney ().

Mount Barney in the Scenic Rim Region of Queensland is named after him.

The suburb of Barney Point in Gladstone, Queensland is named after him.

References

Hart, Henry George. (1845). "The New Annual Army List". John Murray.
Hart, Henry George. (1846). "The New Annual Army List". John Murray.
Hart, Henry George. (1840). "The New Annual Army List". John Murray.
"Memorial to Lieutenant Colonel George Barney".
{{Dictionary of Australian Biography
Connolly, Thomas William John. (1898). "Roll of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers from 1660 to 1898". The Royal Engineers Institute.
{{Cite NSW Parliament
(1966). "Barney, George (1792-1862)".
(15 December 1835). "Shipping Intelligence". [[The Australian (1824 newspaper).
(17 December 1835). "The Sydney Herald". [[The Sydney Herald]].
{{NSW Parliamentary Record
(26 December 1848). "Crown Lands beyond the settled districts: Appointment of Chief Commissioner". [[New South Wales Government Gazette]].
(13 October 1855). "Advertising". [[The Sydney Morning Herald]].
(25 April 1862). "Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction". [[New South Wales Government Gazette]].
"Maria Jane Scott". The University of Queensland.
"Lieutenant Colonel George Barney".
{{cite QPN. 40972. Mount Barney
{{cite QPN. 46720. Barney Point

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