George Barney

Quality 0.50 · 1 view · Updated 2 months ago

British colonial governor

title: "George Barney" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1792-births", "1862-deaths", "military-personnel-from-wolverhampton", "royal-engineers-officers", "british-civil-engineers", "surveyors-general-of-new-south-wales", "members-of-the-new-south-wales-legislative-council", "19th-century-australian-politicians", "british-emigrants-to-the-colony-of-new-south-wales", "british-army-personnel-of-the-peninsular-war"] description: "British colonial governor" topic_path: "people/1790s" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Barney" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary British colonial governor ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox military person"]

FieldValue
nameGeorge Barney
imageLieutenant Colonel George Barney.jpg
captionGeorge Barney, 1860
birth_date
birth_placeWolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
death_date
death_placeSt Leonards, New South Wales
allegianceUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
branchBoard of Ordnance
branch_labelBranch
serviceyears1808–1846
serviceyears_labelYears of service
rankLieutenant Colonel
rank_labelRank
servicenumber402
unitCorps of Royal Engineers
commandsCRE, New South Wales, 1835–43
CRE, Athlone District, 1845
CRE, Woolwich, 1846
battles
*** Siege of Tarifa<ref name"Hart1840"
** Capture of Les Saintes<ref name"Hart1840"/
** Invasion of Guadeloupe<ref name"Hart1840"/
battles_labelCampaigns
memorialsMemorial to Lieutenant Colonel George Barney, Bligh & Barney Reserve, The Rocks, Sydney
relationsJoseph Barney (father)
Maria Jane Scott (daughter)
laterworkColonial Engineer, 1835–44
Superintendent North Australia, 1846–47
Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands, 1849–55
Member of the Legislative Assembly, 1851–56
Surveyor General, 1855–59
::

| name = George Barney | image = Lieutenant Colonel George Barney.jpg | image_upright = | alt = | caption = George Barney, 1860 | birth_date = | birth_place = Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England | death_date = | death_place = St Leonards, New South Wales | allegiance = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | branch = Board of Ordnance | branch_label = Branch | serviceyears = 1808–1846 | serviceyears_label = Years of service | rank = Lieutenant Colonel | rank_label = Rank | servicenumber = 402 | unit = Corps of Royal Engineers | commands = CRE, New South Wales, 1835–43 CRE, Athlone District, 1845 CRE, Woolwich, 1846 | battles =

Lieutenant Colonel George Barney (19 May 1792 – 16 April 1862) was a military engineer of the Corps of Royal Engineers and became Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of North Australia.

Early life

George Barney was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, the son of Joseph Barney, drawing master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, England, and Jane, née Chandler (or Chambers). He entered the army at 16 as second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. He served in the Peninsular War and in the West Indies. He had several years experience of civil engineering in Jamaica. He was promoted to captain in 1825.

Career in Australia

From 1835 a number of Royal Engineer officers with a detachment of the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners were sent out to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, Australia. Captain George Barney, Commanding Royal Engineer of New South Wales, arrived at Sydney on the British Sovereign with his wife and three children on 15 December 1835. He was followed in by Lieutenant Henry Williamson Lugard, RE, on the Hive and Tamar on 16 December, and their Clerk of Works, George Graham, and his family in 1836.

Barney was appointed a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 17 July 1843, but resigned in August 1843.

Late life

Barney was appointed successively chief commissioner of crown lands on 1 January 1849, and Surveyor General of New South Wales on 11 October 1855. He was again appointed a member of the Legislative Council from 13 October 1851 to 29 February 1856. He was married to Portia Henrietta Peale. One of their daughters, Maria Jane Scott, was a painter and novelist.

He died at Sydney on 16 April 1862.

Legacy

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Lieutenant_George_Barney_Memorial_and_Engineers_Wall_at_The_Rocks.jpg" caption="Memorial to Lieutenant Colonel George Barney, RE, at The Rocks, Sydney"] ::

Barney's North Sydney house, Wotonga, was later acquired by the Commonwealth and, after extensions, became Admiralty House, the Sydney residence of the Governor-General of Australia.

There is a monument to George Barney in The Rocks, Sydney ().

Mount Barney in the Scenic Rim Region of Queensland is named after him.

The suburb of Barney Point in Gladstone, Queensland is named after him.

References

References

  1. Hart, Henry George. (1845). "The New Annual Army List". John Murray.
  2. Hart, Henry George. (1846). "The New Annual Army List". John Murray.
  3. Hart, Henry George. (1840). "The New Annual Army List". John Murray.
  4. "Memorial to Lieutenant Colonel George Barney".
  5. {{Dictionary of Australian Biography
  6. Connolly, Thomas William John. (1898). "Roll of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers from 1660 to 1898". The Royal Engineers Institute.
  7. {{Cite NSW Parliament
  8. (1966). "Barney, George (1792-1862)".
  9. (15 December 1835). "Shipping Intelligence". [[The Australian (1824 newspaper).
  10. (17 December 1835). "The Sydney Herald". [[The Sydney Herald]].
  11. {{NSW Parliamentary Record
  12. (26 December 1848). "Crown Lands beyond the settled districts: Appointment of Chief Commissioner". [[New South Wales Government Gazette]].
  13. (13 October 1855). "Advertising". [[The Sydney Morning Herald]].
  14. (25 April 1862). "Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction". [[New South Wales Government Gazette]].
  15. "Maria Jane Scott". The University of Queensland.
  16. "Lieutenant Colonel George Barney".
  17. {{cite QPN. 40972. Mount Barney
  18. {{cite QPN. 46720. Barney Point

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::

1792-births1862-deathsmilitary-personnel-from-wolverhamptonroyal-engineers-officersbritish-civil-engineerssurveyors-general-of-new-south-walesmembers-of-the-new-south-wales-legislative-council19th-century-australian-politiciansbritish-emigrants-to-the-colony-of-new-south-walesbritish-army-personnel-of-the-peninsular-war