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Henry Dangar
Henry Dangar (1796–1861) was a surveyor and explorer of Australia in the early period of British colonisation. Despite an upheld challenge to some of his early land claims, he received huge land grants.
He became a successful pastoralist and businessman. Dangar also served as a magistrate and politician. In 1845 he was first elected as a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and served until 1851.
He was born on 18 November 1796 at St Neot, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Having studied as a surveyor, he was the first of six brothers to emigrate as free settlers to the Colony of New South Wales (now part of Australia).
Soon after arrival in the Jessie on 2 April 1821, Dangar was appointed assistant government surveyor under John Oxley. He was employed in the counties of Camden and Argyle.
In 1822, Dangar was transferred to Newcastle to survey the Hunter Valley in preparation for British pastoral occupation. He prepared the plans of King's Town (Newcastle). In the next two years, he measured and marked out village reserves, church lands, and allocations for settlers along the lower branches of the Hunter River and as far north as Patrick's Plains.
From 1824 he surveyed the road from Newcastle to Wallis Plains (Maitland), measuring reserves and grants and working steadily northwards, past the confluence of the Goulburn and Hunter rivers until he reached the hitherto uncolonised upper districts of the Hunter River. There he explored the present sites of Muswellbrook, Aberdeen and Scone. After crossing the Hunter River just to the north-west of the present site of Aberdeen, he named the Dart Brook and Kingdon Ponds, two tributaries that flow from the north.
Dangar followed Dart Brook to its source, and crossed the Liverpool Range to the plains beyond. He turned back when attacked by the Geawegal clan of the Wanaruah people west of where the town of Murrurundi later developed.
His report on the quality of land on the plains caused an immediate rush of applicants for land grants. On this journey he sighted a domed feature that he named Mt Cupola. It was renamed Mount Dangar by explorer Allan Cunningham, who became the first European to climb it the following year.
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Henry Dangar
Henry Dangar (1796–1861) was a surveyor and explorer of Australia in the early period of British colonisation. Despite an upheld challenge to some of his early land claims, he received huge land grants.
He became a successful pastoralist and businessman. Dangar also served as a magistrate and politician. In 1845 he was first elected as a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and served until 1851.
He was born on 18 November 1796 at St Neot, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Having studied as a surveyor, he was the first of six brothers to emigrate as free settlers to the Colony of New South Wales (now part of Australia).
Soon after arrival in the Jessie on 2 April 1821, Dangar was appointed assistant government surveyor under John Oxley. He was employed in the counties of Camden and Argyle.
In 1822, Dangar was transferred to Newcastle to survey the Hunter Valley in preparation for British pastoral occupation. He prepared the plans of King's Town (Newcastle). In the next two years, he measured and marked out village reserves, church lands, and allocations for settlers along the lower branches of the Hunter River and as far north as Patrick's Plains.
From 1824 he surveyed the road from Newcastle to Wallis Plains (Maitland), measuring reserves and grants and working steadily northwards, past the confluence of the Goulburn and Hunter rivers until he reached the hitherto uncolonised upper districts of the Hunter River. There he explored the present sites of Muswellbrook, Aberdeen and Scone. After crossing the Hunter River just to the north-west of the present site of Aberdeen, he named the Dart Brook and Kingdon Ponds, two tributaries that flow from the north.
Dangar followed Dart Brook to its source, and crossed the Liverpool Range to the plains beyond. He turned back when attacked by the Geawegal clan of the Wanaruah people west of where the town of Murrurundi later developed.
His report on the quality of land on the plains caused an immediate rush of applicants for land grants. On this journey he sighted a domed feature that he named Mt Cupola. It was renamed Mount Dangar by explorer Allan Cunningham, who became the first European to climb it the following year.