Listen to Mudgee-based ADFAS Australian lecturer, John Broadley

By Penny Mowat
April 12 2019 - 6:00am
Come and discover the marvellous patina of Camden Park House and its fascinating gardens and outbuildings at John Broadley's lecture at Cudgegong Valley Public School Hall, at 4.30pm, on Saturday, April 13.
Come and discover the marvellous patina of Camden Park House and its fascinating gardens and outbuildings at John Broadley's lecture at Cudgegong Valley Public School Hall, at 4.30pm, on Saturday, April 13.

Mudgee-based ADFAS Australian lecturer, John Broadley, will be presenting a lecture on Saturday, April 13 on what is arguably Australia's most significant stately home, Camden Park House at Camden. The house, situated on one of the earliest land grants outside the Sydney region, is still inhabited by descendants of the man who commissioned it - John Macarthur, a controversial figure in the history and politics of colonial New South Wales. Arriving in the colony in 1790, John and his wife, the tolerant and long-suffering Elizabeth, rose to become its leading citizens. John prospered through breeding early strains of merinos, despite being absent from New South Wales for extended periods in the early 1800s, during which time the family interests were more than capably managed by Elizabeth.

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