Samuel McCaughey
Sir Samuel McCaughey | |
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 Portrait of Sir Samuel McCaughey | |
| Born | 1 July 1835 Tullyneuh, Ireland |
| Died | 25 July 1919 (aged 84) |
Sir Samuel McCaughey (1 July 1835 – 25 July 1919) was an Irish-born pastoralist, politician and philanthropist in Australia.
Early life
[edit]McCaughey was born on 1 July 1835 at Tullynewey, near Ballymena, Ireland, the son of Francis McCaughey, farmer and merchant, and his wife Eliza, née Wilson.[1]
Death and legacy
[edit]McCaughey died at Yanco on 25 July 1919.[1][2]
He was a philanthropist; he donated £10,000 to the Dreadnought Fund, £10,000 to Dr Barnardo's Homes, gave liberally to the Red Cross and other war charities besides insuring 500 soldiers at £200 each.[citation needed]
After his death, his estate was sworn for probate at over £1,600,000. Apart from bequests of £200,000 and all his motor vehicles to his brother John and legacies to his station managers and employees, he left £10,000 to increase the stipends of Presbyterian clergy, £20,000 to the Burnside Orphan Homes at Parramatta, £20,000 to Scots College in Sydney, £10,000 each to five other independent schools (Newington College, Sydney Church of England Grammar School, Sydney Grammar School, Cranbrook School, Sydney and The King's School, Parramatta), £5000 to the Salvation Army and £5000 each to seven hospitals.[3]
Half the residue of his estate went to the University of Sydney (£458,000 from which nine chairs were created, including the McCaughey Chair of French)[4] and to the University of Queensland. The other half went to the relief of members of the Australian Military and Naval Expeditionary Forces and their widows and children.[1]
His portrait by John Longstaff is in the Great Hall of the University of Sydney.[citation needed]
Yanco Agricultural High School
[edit]One of the schools which directly bears his legacy is Yanco Agricultural High School,[5] located near Leeton, New South Wales. This school was founded around a building built by McCaughey to host The Duke of York during a planned visit to Australia. A life-size portrait of McCaughey is in the entry to this building.
McCaughey Chair of French
[edit]The following professors[4] occupied this chair at Sydney University:
- George Gibb Nicholson, 1921–45
- Ian Allan Ramie Henning, 1945–70
- Leigh Ross Chambers, 1971–75
- Ian Peter Barko, 1976–90
- Angus Andrews Martin, 1992–99
- Margaret Sankey, 2003- [6]
Family
[edit]His brother John, also a pastoralist, has an art prize in his name: the John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize was set up by his widow Mona in 1957.[7]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Hohnen, Peter. "McCaughey, Sir Samuel (1835–1919)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. pp. 130–131. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ↑ "Sir Samuel McCaughey". The Argus. Melbourne. 26 July 1919. p. 18. Retrieved 15 July 2014 – via Trove.
- ↑ "SIR SAMUEL McCAUGHEY'S WILL". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 2 August 1919. p. 8. Retrieved 6 June 2013 – via Trove.
- 1 2 Angus Martin, "The Teaching of French at Sydney", Arts: The Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association, Vol. 14 (1989), p. 49. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ↑ Leeton Tourisim – Sir Samuel McCaughey Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ↑ Briefly - News and Events, sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ↑ "Art prize for three Australian artists". State of the Arts. 19 July 2004. Archived from the original on 31 August 2007.
Further reading
[edit]- "Grand old man". The Sydney Morning Herald. 30 June 1915. p. 10 – via Trove.
- "Sir Samuel M'Caughey". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 July 1919. p. 13 – via Trove.
- Cleary, Patrick Scott; Sheehan, Michael (1933), Australia's debt to Irish nation-builders, Angus & Robertson Limited
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- 1835 births
- 1919 deaths
- Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council
- Irish emigrants to colonial Australia
- Australian Knights Bachelor
- People from Ballymena
- Settlers of Australia
- 19th-century Australian philanthropists
- 19th-century Australian businesspeople
- Australian stockmen
- British emigrants to the Colony of New South Wales