ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. xli. 



Donald Macleod, j.p., Staff Surgeon. He was Police 

 Magistrate at Parramatta and Superintendent of the 

 Female Factory. 1 He appears to have returned to England, 

 and in about 1828, came back to Sydney, 2 and obtained 

 land at " Benera " near Liverpool, and at Gundaroo. [A 

 Donald McLeod died 3rd August, 1851, at Tilkai, aged 52 

 years (Farmer)]. 



Lieutenant John Oxley, R.N., J.P. (178? -1828). He was 

 born at Kirkham in Yorkshire, England, and died on 28th 

 May, 1828, at his home, Kirkham, near Camden, N.S. Wales, 

 where he had been carrying on agricultural pursuits. He 

 visited Australia several times prior to 1812, from which 

 year to the time of his deatli in 1828 he was Surveyor 

 General. He was a member of the Agricultural Society of 

 New South Wales in 1822. 



Oxley won fame as an Australian explorer. In 1817 he 

 travelled down to the lower Lachlan, then crossed north- 

 easterly over the upper Bogan to the Macquarie at Wel- 

 lington, returning to Bathurst. In 1818 he followed down 

 the Macquarie to where it enters the reed beds, he then 

 turned easterly past the Warrumbungle Mountains, across 

 the northern portion of Liverpool Plains to the Walcha 

 district, thence down the Hastings River to Port Macquarie. 

 In 1819 he visited Shoalhaven and Jervis Bay. In 1823 he 

 went to Port Curtis, calling at Moreton Bay on his way 

 back when he explored the Brisbane River. 



Robert Townson, lld., F.R.S.E. (1763-1827). He arrived 

 in Sydney on 27th July, 1807, in the Duke of Portland. 3 



1 Hist. JR.ec. of Australia, Vol. xn, 499. 



2 Hist, Rec. of Australia, Vol. xni, 767. 



3 Hist. Rec. of Australia, Vol. ix, 877. 



