The Merchant of Sydney: James Chisholm 1772-1837 by Chis Maxwell and Alex Pugh

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Partial date due slip on inside page now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Mark on right foredge. Body text and binding are still very good.

James Chisholm (1772-1837) was an important pioneer of colonial Australia, contributing to its business and banking, democratic processes and pastoral industry, yet historians have ignored him for two hundred years.

He left his native Scotland as a young soldier and travelled halfway around the world to a new land, where, from being a corporal in the Rum Corps, he rose to become a leading merchant in Sydney.

In a life characterised by faith, loyalty, family and self-improvement, this gruff but quietly spoken Scot, of "genial and kindly disposition", commanded wide respect and made his mark on a new society. (back cover)