Richard West Nash in Western Australia, 1839-1849: A Biographical Sketch by Michael Smith

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor edgewear. Previous owner has inscribed inside title page.

Centre for Irish Studies monograph series; no. 2

This study presents here a professional man, a barrister, who played a significant part in the affairs of the Swan River Colony for ten short years between 1839 and 1849, and about whom there is very little information available. He died in London in 1850, aged forty-two.

He was closely involved in various political, professional, social and cultural activities that placed his contributions to Western Australian colonial society among the more influential at the time. He played a central role in developing the Western Australian Agricultural Society and the Vineyard Society during the depression years of the 1840s when they briefly flourished and then both failed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.