Sarah.Xenos: written article about John Bingle
== Early Life ==
Born on the 15th May 1976<ref name=":0"></ref>.Born in [[Kent|Gillingham , Kent , England]] <ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>. . He was the only surviving son of John Rayden BIngle<ref name=":0" /> .He worked for the [[East India Company]]<ref name=":1" />. He was educated at [[Chatham, Kent|Chatham]]<ref name=":0" />.· Employed on the naval dockyard from 1812 to 1817 when he joined the [[Merchant navy|merchant marine]]<ref name=":0" />.
== Arriving to Australia ==
Arrived in Australia at the age of 25 as a second officer on the [[Convicts in Australia|convict]] ship Minerva on 16<sup>th</sup> December 1821<ref name=":2"></ref>· Soon after went to [[City of Lake Macquarie|Lake Macquarie]] with Rev. George Augustus Middleton<ref name=":2" />.
== Surveying Port Macquarie ==
On January 1822 received instruction from Governor Brisbane to proceed on the ship Sally to [[Port Macquarie]] then to sail to search for a large river that was to exist between [[Port Macquarie]] and [[Sandy Cape]]<ref name=":2" /> He was commissioned by Governor to go as far as [[Moreton Bay]]<ref name=":0" />.· He failed to discover [[fresh water]] but received permission to build a vessel for trade with Newcastle<ref name=":0" />
== Puen Buen ==
He acquired 1800 acres of land which he named Puen Buen in 1820's <ref name=":2" />. He became a squatter on property which is located on the [[Scone, New South Wales|Dartbrook , Scone]]<ref name=":1" />. [[Drought]] caused him to sell his land and start businesses in Newcastle<ref name=":1" />.Later he sold his land to [[John Robertson (premier)|John Robertson]]<ref name=":2" />.
== Business ==
He became business partners with Robert Coram Dillon and established a business at No.2 Watt Street<ref name=":2" />. His business was dissolved in 1824<ref name=":2" />. Bingle & Co established the first regular trading service between Sydney and Newcastle in 1822 carrying coal , cedar and merchandise in the Sally<ref name=":0" />.·Bingle sold his interest in venture after convicts steal his ship the Eclipse<ref name=":0" />.· Five years after selling Puen Buen became director of two banks a member of the diocesan committee of Christ Church , chairman of the Exchange<ref name=":0" />.
== Other achievements ==
Retired from His Majesty’s services and applied for leave to build a vessel for the coal called the Eclipse<ref name=":1" /> He worked as [[magistrate]] and was famous for catching [[bushranger]] in [[Scone, New South Wales|Scone]] <ref name=":1" />. · Built the first [[courthouse]] in 1832 in [[Scone, New South Wales|Scone]] <ref name=":0" />.He became the first [[Chairperson|chairman]] of the [[chamber of commerce]] in 1856<ref name=":1" />.· He was the designer of the Coat of Arms of the City of Newcastle was the adoption of the New South Wales flag<ref name=":1" />.· The first telegraph from Sydney to Newcastle on 11 January 1860 was sent from his office<ref name=":0" />.
== Personal Life ==
·In August 1824 in Hobart married his wife Mary<ref name=":0" />. He had a son and two daugthers<ref name=":0" />.He gave lots of [[Donation|donations]] to [[church]] and [[hospital]] [[Funding|funds]]<ref name=":0" />.· Moved his family to England in 1837<ref name=":0" />.He returned to England in 1842<ref name=":2" />.
He died on 10th April 1882 at age 80<ref name=":2" />. He was highly respected in Newcastle and flags were flown at [[Half-mast|half - mast]] in his honour<ref name=":2" />. He is a buried at a cathedral graveyard<ref name=":1" />.
Born on the 15th May 1976<ref name=":0"></ref>.Born in [[Kent|Gillingham , Kent , England]] <ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>. . He was the only surviving son of John Rayden BIngle<ref name=":0" /> .He worked for the [[East India Company]]<ref name=":1" />. He was educated at [[Chatham, Kent|Chatham]]<ref name=":0" />.· Employed on the naval dockyard from 1812 to 1817 when he joined the [[Merchant navy|merchant marine]]<ref name=":0" />.
== Arriving to Australia ==
Arrived in Australia at the age of 25 as a second officer on the [[Convicts in Australia|convict]] ship Minerva on 16<sup>th</sup> December 1821<ref name=":2"></ref>· Soon after went to [[City of Lake Macquarie|Lake Macquarie]] with Rev. George Augustus Middleton<ref name=":2" />.
== Surveying Port Macquarie ==
On January 1822 received instruction from Governor Brisbane to proceed on the ship Sally to [[Port Macquarie]] then to sail to search for a large river that was to exist between [[Port Macquarie]] and [[Sandy Cape]]<ref name=":2" /> He was commissioned by Governor to go as far as [[Moreton Bay]]<ref name=":0" />.· He failed to discover [[fresh water]] but received permission to build a vessel for trade with Newcastle<ref name=":0" />
== Puen Buen ==
He acquired 1800 acres of land which he named Puen Buen in 1820's <ref name=":2" />. He became a squatter on property which is located on the [[Scone, New South Wales|Dartbrook , Scone]]<ref name=":1" />. [[Drought]] caused him to sell his land and start businesses in Newcastle<ref name=":1" />.Later he sold his land to [[John Robertson (premier)|John Robertson]]<ref name=":2" />.
== Business ==
He became business partners with Robert Coram Dillon and established a business at No.2 Watt Street<ref name=":2" />. His business was dissolved in 1824<ref name=":2" />. Bingle & Co established the first regular trading service between Sydney and Newcastle in 1822 carrying coal , cedar and merchandise in the Sally<ref name=":0" />.·Bingle sold his interest in venture after convicts steal his ship the Eclipse<ref name=":0" />.· Five years after selling Puen Buen became director of two banks a member of the diocesan committee of Christ Church , chairman of the Exchange<ref name=":0" />.
== Other achievements ==
Retired from His Majesty’s services and applied for leave to build a vessel for the coal called the Eclipse<ref name=":1" /> He worked as [[magistrate]] and was famous for catching [[bushranger]] in [[Scone, New South Wales|Scone]] <ref name=":1" />. · Built the first [[courthouse]] in 1832 in [[Scone, New South Wales|Scone]] <ref name=":0" />.He became the first [[Chairperson|chairman]] of the [[chamber of commerce]] in 1856<ref name=":1" />.· He was the designer of the Coat of Arms of the City of Newcastle was the adoption of the New South Wales flag<ref name=":1" />.· The first telegraph from Sydney to Newcastle on 11 January 1860 was sent from his office<ref name=":0" />.
== Personal Life ==
·In August 1824 in Hobart married his wife Mary<ref name=":0" />. He had a son and two daugthers<ref name=":0" />.He gave lots of [[Donation|donations]] to [[church]] and [[hospital]] [[Funding|funds]]<ref name=":0" />.· Moved his family to England in 1837<ref name=":0" />.He returned to England in 1842<ref name=":2" />.
He died on 10th April 1882 at age 80<ref name=":2" />. He was highly respected in Newcastle and flags were flown at [[Half-mast|half - mast]] in his honour<ref name=":2" />. He is a buried at a cathedral graveyard<ref name=":1" />.
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