Name William Dumaresq Role Writer | Books Duffer | |
Died October 8, 1998, England, United Kingdom Parents Mary Dumaresq, William S. Dumaresq Plays The Human Comedy, Isabel's a Jezebel | ||
William John Dumaresq (1793 – 9 November 1868) was an English-born Australian politician.
He was the son of John Dumaresq, a Shropshire colonel, and Anne Jones. He attended the Royal Military College, Great Marlow, and became a civil engineer. He served in the Royal Staff Corps in the Peninsular War and in Canada, where he worked on the Ottawa Canal. He was deputy surveyor-general in New South Wales but retired in 1829. On 15 October 1830 he married Christiana Susan Macleay, daughter of Alexander Macleay; they had two children. Although he lived mainly at Rose Bay from the 1840s, he was associated with the Scone district. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1843 to 1848 and from 1851 to 1856; he was appointed to the reconstituted Council in 1856 but did not take his seat. After his wife's death in 1866, Dumaresq moved to Queensland, and he died at Cleveland in 1868.