William Edward Riley b. 1807

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William Edward Riley, pastoralist and sketcher, was a son of the pioneer pastoralist Alexander Riley who had come to New South Wales as a free settler in 1804. The Riley merinos won gold medals awarded by the NSW Agricultural Society between 1827 and 1830.
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Prize Ram and Ewe, Exhibited at Parramatta, October 1828, from the Electoral Saxon flocks of Raby
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References [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records : V1836857 20/1836'.>, <ExternalResource: 'NSW Marriage Records : V1833135 17/1833'.>, <ExternalResource: 'NSW Birth Records : V18072069 1A/1807; V180781 5/1807'.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Callaway, Anita.>, <ExternalResource: Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (Manuscripts: A106, A2011).>, <ExternalResource: Conway, J. K. (1967), 'Alexander Riley', Melbourne, Vic : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, [pp 379-381].>, <ExternalResource: Ker, J. (1960), 'Merchants and merinos', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, [46].>] [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records : V1836857 20/1836'.>, <ExternalResource: 'NSW Marriage Records : V1833135 17/1833'.>, <ExternalResource: 'NSW Birth Records : V18072069 1A/1807; V180781 5/1807'.>]