Charles Cowper (1834-1911), politician and police magistrate, was born on 29 September 1834 in Macquarie Place, Sydney, the eldest son of Sir Charles Cowper and his wife Eliza, née Sutton.
The family moved to Kirkham, Camden, and Charles, aged 9, was sent to the school of his uncle, William Macquarie Cowper, at Stroud. Later he attended The King's School, Parramatta, for about three years. Charles, was sent to manage Burrabogie station near Hay for his father when aged 17. On October 11, 1855, Charles married Mary, the daughter of Robert Copland Lethbridge of Penrith.
In 1857 Charles was appointed the first honorary secretary of the Goulburn Agricultural and Horticultural Society. Not long after Charles spent some time on the Kiandra goldfield, setting up a store on New Chum Hill and becoming a gold-buyer, and later gold commissioner, when the diggers ousted the gold commissioner.
In November 1860 Charles stood for the seat of Tumut in the Legislative Assembly and was elected without a poll after all the other candidates retired. He was re-elected in January 1861, and on 29 August his appointment as clerk of the Executive Council was gazetted. He resigned from the assembly next day and in the by-election on 26 September and succeeded in retaining the seat of Tumut. The office of clerk of the Executive Council was then made a political one and rescinded by proclamation on his retirement on 19 October 1863. Charles was thus a member of the government without seat in cabinet. On March 3, 1862 he was appointed a member of the Benevolent Asylums Board. Charles resigned his seat of Tumut in October 1863 and successfully opposed Sir James Martin in a by-election at Orange. He stood for Tumut again in December 1864 and was duly elected but his seat was declared vacant on July 25, 1866 because he had been absent for an entire session without leave, having apparently been ill, and was then in Queensland working on various stations extending from the Warrego to Cooper's Creek.
In 1869 Cowper was offered the police magistracy at Bourke by John Robertson, and accepted on condition that he be transferred to Sydney when a vacancy occurred there. He stayed at Bourke from 1 June 1869 to 22 May 1870, and on 23 May he took up the promised new appointment in Sydney as water police magistrate. He resigned on 11 August 1874 to become sheriff of New South Wales, an office he held until he retired in 1896.
His wife, Mary, died at Burradoo on 13 November 1894. In 1898 in Sydney Charles married Amy Rose Clarissa Bramley. Charles died at Beulah, Bowral, on 16 November 1911 and was buried in the family vault at St Paul's Church, Cobbitty.
A = First letter of the place Charles died. Numerical value.
B,C = What year was Charles born? Last two digits.
D,E = How old was Charles when he went to Burrabogie Station?
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