An Australian-born senior government employee
Macquarie now actually went so far as to appoint the first Australian-born person to a senior official position. Even worse, it was D'Arcy's son William, by his seventeen year old convict mistress, who sadly died not long afterwards. Interestingly, it appears William was probably the result of his father's mistress's sexual activity prior to becoming his mistress, and D'Arcy probably knew. However, D'Arcy always treated him as his son.
Of course, not only did the nobs believe D'Arcy should have been hanged, but with such a father and a convict mother who obviously spread herself around a bit, William was more than painted with a bit of the old tar brush as a black-hearted villain by birth, he had the whole bucket tipped over him.
William went on to be quite a famous character in Australia, as one of the three men who "discovered" the way through the Blue Mountains, when at least two whites (John Wilson, unaccompanied by other whites, and Francis Barralier, accompanied by a party of whites and Indigenous Australians) and numerous Indigenous Australians already knew the way, but that's not how most histories record it, and as a strong supporter of Australian independence. Not to mention a descendant who was a Liberal politician who was at times more than a little strange, and who was hilariously pilloried in Frank Hardy's wonderful satirical novel Outcasts of Foolgarah. Frank was mightily peeved the nobs had unfortunately learned not to sue him.
But wait, the best is yet to come!
Of course, not only did the nobs believe D'Arcy should have been hanged, but with such a father and a convict mother who obviously spread herself around a bit, William was more than painted with a bit of the old tar brush as a black-hearted villain by birth, he had the whole bucket tipped over him.
William went on to be quite a famous character in Australia, as one of the three men who "discovered" the way through the Blue Mountains, when at least two whites (John Wilson, unaccompanied by other whites, and Francis Barralier, accompanied by a party of whites and Indigenous Australians) and numerous Indigenous Australians already knew the way, but that's not how most histories record it, and as a strong supporter of Australian independence. Not to mention a descendant who was a Liberal politician who was at times more than a little strange, and who was hilariously pilloried in Frank Hardy's wonderful satirical novel Outcasts of Foolgarah. Frank was mightily peeved the nobs had unfortunately learned not to sue him.
But wait, the best is yet to come!