Richard Stevenson (Australian politician)

He was born at Egham in Surrey, and after working in a printing house arrived in New South Wales in 1851, where he joined the Sydney Morning Herald, working there until 1857 when he left to work on the goldfields at Hanging Rock and Rocky River.

[1] 18 months later he returned to Herald, leaving again in 1861 when he purchased the Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser for £600.

[2] On 8 October 1862 he married Louise Whitehouse at Grafton,[3] they had no children.

[4] He published the paper until 1875 when he sold it for £3,000 due to ill health.

[6] He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Wollombi at the by-election in 1886.