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Edmund Barton
was born in Glebe Sydney in 1849 to William and Mary Louise (née
Whydah). A clever boy with a love of literature, music and art,
Barton was educated at Fort Street Model School and Sydney Grammar
School.
It was at Sydney
Grammar that Barton first met Richard O’Connor. The lives of Barton
and O’Connor would run parallel courses; each dedicated to the cause
of Federation, both members of Australia’s first Federal Cabinet,
and, ultimately, both would sit on the nation’s first High Court.
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