Background
He was born in Sydney to John and Emma Hart, and attended Cape"s School and then Savigny"s Collegiate School in Newcastle.
He was born in Sydney to John and Emma Hart, and attended Cape"s School and then Savigny"s Collegiate School in Newcastle.
He became a farmer, first at Portuguese Stephens and then in the Barwon and Namoi regions. He was subsequently a publican and timber merchant at Raymond Terrace, where he was an alderman and the inaugural mayor. In 1891 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Gloucester, serving until his defeat in 1894.
He lived in Marrickville from around 1903, and it was there that he died in 1912.