Love's Obsession (2013)
“The Mount was, he told Eve, an ugly folly and when he inherited he thought they should blow it up.1 In 1950 Jim and Eve drove up to Bathurst to visit his aunt and consider their future. Eve revelled in the countryside, delighted to leave Sydney behind, and as they drove through the townships of the Blue Mountains Jim told her stories of his childhood.
As sandstone gorges drew Eve’s gaze, Jim explained that the Stewarts were one of the oldest families in colonial New South Wales and part of ...the establishment. In 1825, fewer than forty years after the arrival of the First Fleet, a Scot, William Stewart, was briefly Lieutenant-Governor of the new colony; the following year Governor Darling granted him vast swathes of farming and grazing land around Bathurst. Popular myth had it that Stewart rejected the offer of land in the settlement of Sydney, instead asking for all the land visible from Mount Pleasant, the highest point near Bathurst. According to local legend Stewart was buried standing upright on Mount Pleasant, surveying the acres he was granted.2 William Stewart’s son James had extravagant tastes and a sad family history.MoreLess
As sandstone gorges drew Eve’s gaze, Jim explained that the Stewarts were one of the oldest families in colonial New South Wales and part of ...the establishment. In 1825, fewer than forty years after the arrival of the First Fleet, a Scot, William Stewart, was briefly Lieutenant-Governor of the new colony; the following year Governor Darling granted him vast swathes of farming and grazing land around Bathurst. Popular myth had it that Stewart rejected the offer of land in the settlement of Sydney, instead asking for all the land visible from Mount Pleasant, the highest point near Bathurst. According to local legend Stewart was buried standing upright on Mount Pleasant, surveying the acres he was granted.2 William Stewart’s son James had extravagant tastes and a sad family history.MoreLess
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