Emigration Agents and Committees

John Marshall and James Denholm Pinnock, assisted by government-appointed Emigration Agents at the major ports of Britain and Ireland, provided the link between the British government and the philanthropic committee of influential men who administered the details of female migration to Australia in the 1830s.

The London Emigration Committee (LEC) of 1833-1836 comprised:

Edward Forster (Chair), Nadir Baxter, Charles Holte Bracebridge, Bishop William Grant Broughton, William Crawford, Capel Cure, Sir George Hampson, Samuel Hoare, Thomas Lewin, George Long, Charles Lushington, Sir (William) Edward Parry, Henry Walter Parker, Col. Charles Beaumont Phipps, Sir John Pirie, Capt. Daniel Pring, John Stuckey Reynolds, John Abel Smith, (Samuel) Henry Sterry and John Taylor.

Emigration Committees were also established in Cork, Ireland, under Chairman Peter Besnard (1832) and William Crawford (1833-1836) and in Dublin under Chairman Richard Cane (1834-1836).

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