Henry William Haygarth (1821–1902) was an English cleric who as a young man lived for eight years in the Australian bush, writing a journal based on his experiences.
[2] Haygarth travelled out from England in a family party led by a Parry cousin, David Parry-Okeden, sailing on the Eden, for New South Wales,[3][4] His time in Australia was spent as a squatter,[5] and he settled at a station 230 miles south-west of Sydney, then called Buckley's Crossing (now Dalgety).
[6][7] (Parry-Okeden and Hannibal Dutton of the party having gone ahead to the Snowy River-Gippsland area first, Haygarth may have initially spent time further north.
He became vicar of Wimbledon, Surrey in 1859, and was made an honorary canon of Rochester Cathedral in 1878.
It has been seen as having an environmental dimension, relating to the settlement by whites of the Monaro region, and a political one, sympathetic to the Ngarigo people rather than the local administrator John Lambie.