James Squire Farnell was an Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales. Farnell was a hardworking legislator who gave much study to the land question and also tried hard for some years to pass a bill for the regulation of contagious diseases.
Farnell was born in St Leonards, New South Wales, son of Thomas Charles Farnell, a brewer, and Mary Ann Farnell, daughter of James Squire, an English Romanichal who arrived on the First Fleet and may have been Australias first brewer. He was educated at Parramatta. At a comparatively early age he began travelling with stock and learnt much about his own colony. The California Gold Rush in California in 1849 led to his visiting America, and he also travelled in New Zealand before finally returning to New South Wales.
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