page_title: Thomas Chirnside
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Chirnside / References
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial perspective of Thomas Chirnside School
context_page_description: Thomas Chirnside was an Australian pastoralist who settled on much of what would become western Melbourne.
  Thomas Chirnside was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, the elder son of Robert Chirnside and Mary Fairs. His father was also a farmer.
  In 1839 Chirnside came from Liverpool on the ship Bardaster. He arrived in Adelaide in January, and Sydney in March of that year. The drought of 1839 adversely affected the sheep he had bought near the Murrumbidgee River, so he joined his younger brother Andrew in Melbourne.
  In April 1842 the brothers established a station in the Grampians, and that same year Thomas acquired a station on the Wannon River, where he was one of the first to employ Aborigines. In the mid-1840s the brothers acquired series of properties in the Western District of Victoria.
  The elder Chirnside settled in Werribee, Victoria, just before the gold rushes, eventually buying 80,000 acres of land. He built a substantial bluestone house surrounded by a ha ha wall, and later, in the 1870s, the sandstone Italianate Werribee Park Mansion.
  On 2 September 1853 he purchased through a government grant Section 14, Parish of Cut Paw Paw, County of Burke.
context_section_description: Hone, J. Ann. "Chirnside, Thomas (1815–1887)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  "Sad Death of Mr. Thomas Chirnside". The Argus. 27 June 1887. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  McCrory, Phil (designer); Kelleher, Tony (researcher). "The Chirnsides". Archived from the original on 15 December 2003.
  "Thomas Chirnside Primary School". thomaschirnsideps.vic.edu.au/. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
caption: An aerial perspective of his legacy in Werribee. Thomas Chirnside School. Melbourne 2018.
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