Nicol Stenhouse, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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19th century Scottish-Australian lawyer and writer
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About Nicol Stenhouse
- Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse (27 June 1806 – 18 February 1873) was a Scottish-born lawyer, writer and literary patron in colonial Australia.Stenhouse was born in Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland and was a writer of taste and a great lover of literature.
- He was clerk to Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet when the latter was practising as an advocate in Edinburgh.
- He was also a friend of Thomas De Quincey.
- Having embraced the legal profession, he emigrated to New South Wales, and practised for many years as an attorney and solicitor in Sydney.
- He was a veritable Mæcenas to many needy and struggling literary men in Sydney.
- Not long before his death he was, on the motion of that great scholar, Dr.
- Charles Badham, appointed an examiner in the Faculty of Law and a member of the senate of the University of Sydney.
- He succeeded the late Dr.
- John Woolley, with whom he was on warm terms of friendship, as president of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, and held the position from 1867 to 1873.
- Stenhouse died on 18 February 1873 in Balmain, New South Wales.
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