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The story of the Dover Baptist Church has its roots in the history of the Washington Ave. Free Will Baptist Church with pastorates of some of the most prominent leaders of that movement.
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He was born in 1793 in Norfolk Island, the penal settlement of New South Wales, where his father D'Arcy Wentworth, an Irish gentleman of Roscommon family, who had emigrated in 1790 and later became a prominent official, was then government surgeon.
The son was educated in England, but he spent the interval between his schooling at Greenwich and his matriculation (1816) at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in Australia, and early attracted the attention of Governor Macquarie by some adventurous exploration in the Blue Mountains.
In 1819 he published in London a work on Australasia in two volumes, and in 1823 he only just missed the chancellor's medal at Cambridge (won by W. M. Praed) with a stirring poem on the same subject.
Having been called to the bar, he returned to Sydney, and soon obtained a fine practice.
With Warded, Dr William Bland and others, he formed the "Patriotic Association, " and carried on a determined agitation both in Australia and in England, where they found able supporters.
He had done his work for colonial autonomy, and was becoming an old man, somewhat out of touch with the new generation.
He was the recognized leader of the "emancipists" (immigrant former convicts).
He desired a titled aristocracy that would be represented in an upper house, and wanted amendments to be passed by a two-thirds majority in both houses.
The liberal opposition was too strong, however, to permit the adoption of these proposals.
Disgusted with democratic tendencies in Australia, Wentworth spent the later years of his life in England.
His remains were interred at Vanchise, his former residence in New South Wales, May 6, 1872.
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In 1829 William Wentworth married Sarah Cox (1805–1880), with whom he had seven daughters and three sons.
