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Parliamentary Service
Position Start End Period Parliament
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 28/1/1858 10/11/1864 6 year(s) 9 month(s) 14 day(s)
Member for Western Boroughs 28/1/1858 11/4/1859 1 year(s) 2 month(s) 15 day(s)
Member for Hartley 25/6/1859 10/11/1860 1 year(s) 4 month(s) 17 day(s)
Member for Western Boroughs 14/12/1860 10/11/1864 3 year(s) 10 month(s) 28 day(s)



Qualifications, occupations and interests
Pastoralist. Failed to enter navy; became midshipman and later an officer in merchant marine. Arrived on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, as second mate on Emma in 1836. Journeyed to Sydney and worked in a merchants office; became licensee at the Queen Victoria Inn, Solitary Creek, near Rydal in February 1839; acquired pastoral interests with brother in law. Became a mail coach proprieter in 1849. Ran mail coaches from Bathurst to Orange, Wellington and Hartley until 1857. Purchased Blacktown Estate near Kelso in 1853 and became a successful horse and cattle breeder. Had no squatting interests in unsettled districts. Later acquired a squatting run in Lachlan district. Director of Bathurst Sheep Board in 1866. Chairman from 1869 until 1881. On local public school board from 1868. Chairman from 1874.



Personal
Son of Gilbert Rotton, solicitor, and Mary Caroline Humphries. Married (1) Lorn Jane Macpherson in 1839 and had issue 1 daughter and 1 son. Married (2) Ann Ford on 18 March 1844 and had issue 6 daughters and 5 sons. Baptist.

• Married: 29 APR 1839 in Bowens Hollow, New South Wales

1. Caroline Mary ROTTON b: 20 JUN 1840 in Solitary Creek, New South Wales
2. Peter Macpherson ROTTON b: ABT 1841 in Solitary Creek, New South Wales

• Married: 18 MAR 1844 in Kelso, Church of England, New South Wales

1. Antonina Jane ROTTON b: 12 MAY 1845 in Bathurst, New South Wales
2. Robert Joseph Duffield ROTTON b: 25 JAN 1847 in Bathurst, New South Wales
3. John Botelier ROTTON b: 26 OCT 1848 in Bathurst, New South Wales
4. Arabella Wilmot ROTTON b: 5 JAN 1851 in Blackdown Cottage, Bathurst, New South Wales
5. Gilbert Henry ROTTON b: 11 FEB 1853 in "Blackdown", Bathurst, New South Wales
6. Henry Otto Ives ROTTON b: 20 APR 1855 in "Blackdown", Bathurst, New South Wales
7. Edward Eardley ROTTON b: 4 AUG 1857 in "Blackdown", Bathurst, New South Wales
8. Elizabeth Clive ROTTON b: 1 SEP 1859 in "Blackdown", Bathurst, New South Wales
9. Alfred ROTTON b: 5 FEB 1862 in "Blackdown", Bathurst, New South Wales
10. Annie ROTTON b: 5 FEB 1862 in "Blackdown", Bathurst, New South Wales
11. Annie Maud ROTTON b: 1863 in "Blackdown", Bathurst, New South Wales
12. Mary ROTTON b: 19 MAR 1866 in "Blackdown", Bathurst, New South Wales
13. Arthur Eardley ROTTON b: 16 DEC 1868 in "Blackdown", Bathurst, New South Wales
14. Sarah Humphries ROTTON b: 15 APR 1871 in "Blackdown", Bathurst, New South Wales