1790 - Born on Norfolk Island on the 26th October. 1796 -
Wentworth arrived in Sydney, then a squalid prison settlement,
with his parents and they lived at Parramatta, where his father
became a prosperous landowner. 1803 - Sent to England, where he
was educated at a school in London. 1810 - Returned to Sydney
and appointed acting Provost-Marshall by Governor Lachlan
Macquarie, and given a land grant on the Nepean River. 1813 -
With Gregory Blaxland and William Lawson, led the expedition,
which found a route across the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. -
The town of Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains commemorates
his role in the expedition. 1816 - As a reward he was granted
more lands then combined farming with sandalwood trading in the
South Pacific. - Admitted to the bar, travelled in Europe, and
studied at Cambridge University. 1819 - Published the first book
written by an Australian: A Statistical, Historical and
Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales, in which
he advocated an elected assem