Andrew Town (1840-1890), stud-breeder, was born on 7 March 1840 at Richmond, New South Wales, son of William Town, squatter, and his wife Mary Ann, née Durham, both of whom were born in the colony. He was educated at the Church of England School, Richmond, and at Rev. Matthew Adam's Presbyterian school at Windsor. In the 1860s with his father he held three runs on the Liverpool Plains and one in the Bligh District. On 8 July 1863 at Richmond he married Emma Susannah Onus, a member of an old Hawkesbury family; he lived on the corner of Windsor and Paget streets, Richmond, where much of his stud was housed; he also had extensive stables at Clarendon.
In 1878 he won the Australian Jockey Club St Leger Stakes with Cap-a-pie. The previous year he had bought Hobartville where he bred pedigreed Hereford, Devon and Ayrshire cattle, Berkshire pigs, draught and carriage horses, ponies and trotters as well as his celebrated thoroughbred racehorses. Without equal as a judge of horse-flesh, he had 130 blood and 40 draught mares and imported many mares and stallions. His sires included colonial-bred Maribyrnong and the unbeaten Grand Flaneur. His most successful mare was The Fawn whose yearlings sold for a total of 12,701 guineas; her colt Segenhoe by Maribyrnong was sold to James White for 2000 guineas. In 1882 Town imported the much-travelled American trotting stallion, Childe Harold, in whose memory Harold Park, Sydney, is named.
A magistrate from 1866, Town was a councillor of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, sheep director for Windsor in 1873-89, a trustee of St Peter's Church of England, Richmond, a director of the original Richmond Bridge Co., a committee-man and judge of the Australian Jockey Club, a founder of the Hawkesbury District Agricultural Association and president in 1879-89, founding chairman of the Hawkesbury Race Club in 1882-89 and judge of the Sydney Turf Club, the Hawkesbury, Warwick Farm and Canterbury Park race clubs.