Jeremiah Rundle

Jeremiah Brice Rundle (1816 – 6 March 1893) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in Cornwall to farmer Jeremiah Brice Rundle and Elizabeth White.^[1] He emigrated to Australia around 1835 and settled at Murrurundi, where he ran a store. In the 1840s, he earned income by boiling down stock for tallow and foreclosing mortages.^[2] He was eventually a partner in a mercantile firm, which ran until 1859.^[1] He set up with Richard Carey Danger a merchant and commission agency called Rundle, Dangar & Co. in Sydney and Dangar & Co. in London.^[2] On 18 March 1848 he married Mary Simond, with whom he had eleven children. In the 1850s owned land with the Dangar family owned 600,000 acres of land in Walcha^[2] He remained a prominent businessman in the colony, and also owned extensive land in the Liverpool Plains, as well as the Warrego and Darling Downs districts in Queensland.^[2] In September 1860 he wrote a letter to the colonial sectary wanting to produce a bill that addresses cattle stealing.^[2] In November 1860 he was appointed to the general committee of the New South Wales Constitutional Association^[2] He was the director and chairman of the Australian Joint Bank^[2] From 1870 - 1893 he was the director of the Sydney Meat Preserving Co, the Morouya Silver Mining Co, and the United Fire and Marine Insurance Co.^[2] He also served as magistrate for the City of Sydney, a trustee of the Victoria Club and an early member of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron.^[2] In 1882 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, where he served until his death at Potts Point in 1893.^[1]