Sixth Generation

67. Hon. William Adams BRODRIBB was born on 27 May 1809 in London, England.⁴¹ About 1855 he was a farmer in Australia.¹¹ He died on 31 May 1886 in Sydney.¹¹ Many descendants in Australia are known; this tree mainly concerns the Hebden Brodribb descendants who married into the Excell family, so does not include descendants of William Adams Brodribb.
The Adams/Brodribb booklet has an extract from the "Australian Churchman", June 1886, quoting the Sydney Morning Herald, and including:
We regret to have to announce the death of Mr. William Adams Brodribb, one of the last of the old colonists who link the present to the past of New South Wales. Mr Brodribb was a Londoner, having been born in that city on 27th May, 1809. He was therefore 77 years of age. He was the son of the late William Adams Brodribb, an English solicitor, who afterwards resided in Hobart, where he held the office of clerk to the Judge Advocate, and subsequently became Under-Sheriff. Mr. Brodribb left his father's adopted home for New South Wales, where he entered upon sheep-farming and also cattle-breeding, in each case with considerable success. His first station was in the Maneroo district, and he afterwards acquired an interest in a large pastoral holding near Goulborn, and during his residence there stocked a station on the Broken River with sheep, cattle and horses. Mr Brodribb was one of a company formed for the exploration of Gippsland, who, after considerable hardship, and almost when their minds were made up to abandon the enterprise, discovered what is known as Port Albert. After varying fortune in station property in New South Wales, Mr Brodribb in 1855 crossed the Australian Alps with his herds, and settled on the Wanganella run, from which, however, he soon afterwards sold out. He then went to Melbourne , where he was elected a member of Parliament for Brighton; but about a year afterwards he resigned and went to England, and after two years' absence, returned and formed several stations in the Lachlan District. In 1874 he again visited England, and whilst there did some useful work for the colony, aiding in bringing about reforms in the wool trade. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute. In 1875 he returned again to the colony [i.e. NSW], and purchased Buckhurst, where he resided for a time. Latterly he lived at his house in Macquarie Street [Sydney], where he died. In 1877 Mr. Brodribb was appointed a member of the New South Wales Commission at the Paris International Exhibition, and in 1879 a member of the New South Wales International Exhibition. He was justice of the peace of both this colony and of Victoria. Mr. Brodribb was elected a member of the legislative Assembly of New South Wales on 24th November 1880, but resigned that position in the following year, on the 29th December, upon which he was appointed to a seat in the Legislative Council. He did not, however, take his place among the members of that body till the 22nd of August following. Of that chamber he has remained a member ever since.

Hon. William Adams BRODRIBB and Eliza Matilda KENNEDY were married. Three daughters and a son died in early childhood, children shown in Brodribbs of Somerset booklet are Rev. Wm. Kennedy Brodribb B.A. 1847-1906, rector of Putley, Herts, England; Kenric Edward Brodribb b. 1849 m. Theresa Casey Lavinia Caroline Brodribb b. 1851 m. Rev. Canon Tucker; Eliza Emma Brodribb b. 1856 m. Jas Liddle Purves Q.C.; Florence Mary Brodribb b. 1858 m. Hugh Fyffe; Ernest George Brodribb, b. 1859

Hon. William Adams BRODRIBB and Catherine Kennedy HUME were married.