Contents

Acknowledgments

Metric Conversions

Foreword: A Contradictory Character

1    An English Gentleman With no Money

2    Emigration – Hostile Ships, Storms and Mutinies

3    The Second Largest Landowner in Two Years, Bankrupt in Three

4    Rehabilitated as Macquarie’s Protégé

5    The Challenge of the Blue Mountains

6    Mount York Defeated

7    A Family Enterprise

8    The Perquisites of Office

9    Toughly Interviewed by Commissioner Bigge

10  A Wife Lost and a New Marriage

11  Dispossessing the Aborigines

12  The Exclusives Lose Their Dominance

13  The Cox Dynasty Established

Bibliography

Notes

Index