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William Charles Wentworth (August 1790 – 20 March 1872) was an Australian statesman, author, explorer, lawyer, newspaper editor and pastoralist, who became one of the wealthiest and most powerful figures in colonial New South Wales. He was among the first colonists to articulate a nascent Australian identity. Wentworth was the leading advocate for the rights of emancipists, trial by jury and representative self-government.

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