A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott, Esq., J.P., of Adelaide, South Australia (signed presentation copy)

Written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends. Adelaide : William Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1874. Octavo, flush cut yellow papered limp boards (corners chipped, a few stains and creases), cloth spine, with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Mrs. Barr Smith to the front free endpaper, pp. 53, light foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy.

The fascinating self-published autobiography of Marshall MacDermott, who entered the British army in the year 1808, serving in various conflicts in Martinique, the United States and Canada, before befriending Lord Byron, and emigrating to the Swan River Colony in 1829. After a successful career in Western Australia, firstly in farming and then in banking, MacDermott moved to Adelaide in the 1850s where he represented Flinders in the South Australian House of Assembly 1857 – 1859, and in 1859 he was appointed a Special Magistrate.

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