1. Simeon Lord became a prominent trader in Sydney, buying and selling ship cargoes.
22 Facts About Simeon Lord
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Simeon Lord was at various times a retailer, auctioneer, sealer, pastoralist, timber merchant and manufacturer.
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Simeon Lord is mentioned in many Australian History books, in particular regarding his status as an emancipist.
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Simeon Lord was then transported to New South Wales as part of the Third Fleet on board the Atlantic.
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Simeon Lord developed many business interests in the colony, and became one of Sydney's wealthiest men.
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Simeon Lord signed as surety on James Squire's establishment called The Malting Shovel in 1799.
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Simeon Lord's business was on the site of the corner of Bridge Street and Macquarie Place.
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About 1805 Simeon Lord began a relationship with Mary Hyde, a convict who had arrived in Australia in 1798.
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Also in 1805 Simeon Lord went into partnership with Henry Kable and James Underwood, but their association ended in legal disputes in the courts of New South Wales, as did many of Simeon Lord's ventures.
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Simeon Lord was immensely litigious, and his affairs took up a large percentage of the early appeals from the Colony of New South Wales to the Privy Council in England.
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Simeon Lord was engaged in trade with New Zealand, and in 1809 had the misfortune to lose a valuable cargo of sealskins in the events surrounding the Boyd massacre.
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Simeon Lord had chartered the 'Boyd' and sent it to New Zealand to complete its cargo with a consignment of spars.
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In spite of this disaster Simeon Lord joined in an attempt to obtain a monopoly to establish a flax plantation in New Zealand, and manufacture canvas and cordage from it in Sydney.
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The monopoly was not granted and Simeon Lord turned his hands to other things.
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Simeon Lord employed a man to experiment in dyes and tanning, and was the first to weave with Australian wool.
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Simeon Lord succeeded in weavings coarse cloths, blankets and stockings and made hats.
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Long before this, in May 1810, Simeon Lord was made a magistrate and he became a frequent guest at government house.
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On 27 October 1814, at St Philip's Church, Sydney Simeon Lord married his partner of many years, Mary Hyde.
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Simeon Lord succeeded in compounding a claim for land resumed for public purposes in Sydney, by accepting in 1828 a large grant of land in the country.
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Simeon Lord did not come into public notice after this.
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Simeon Lord became a large landholder during his lifetime, of both land he purchased himself, and of land grants.
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Simeon Lord died "an immensely wealthy man" at the age of 69 on 29 January 1840 in the family home of "Banks House" at Botany.