sketcher and naval officer, was the youngest son of Rev. John Jeffreys of Barnes, Surrey, chaplain to the Prince of Wales. Arthur served in the Royal Navy but retired as lieutenant in 1840 and settled in New South Wales. On 7 February 1841 he married Sarah, the younger daughter of Robert and Sophia Campbell , in St Philip’s Church of England, Sydney. An 1843 pencil sketch, Fort Macquarie, Sydney Cove , initialled A.J. and formerly in the album of his sister-in-law Sophia Ives Campbell , must be his work, as are sketches with the same initials in Marrianne Campbell 's album (Powerhouse Museum). Jeffreys, a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales from 1851 to 1854, lived in splendour in Canterbury House (1850: demolished) on the Canterbury estate near Sydney, 'about the most charming country house I ever saw even in England’, wrote Rachel Henning , who lived there in the 1870s. Sarah died at Madeira in March 1856 and Arthur died on 13 September 1861, after which the property was leased on behalf of their three surviving sons.
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