Sir, Edmund Barton (1849-1920) Edmund Barton was born to his parents William and Mary Barton on the 18th of January 1849 in Glebe, Sydney, in New South Wales. Barton attended Sydney Grammar School and he won many scholarships. He studied law at Sydney University and he received first class honors. He got a masters degree by the age of 21. He practiced as a barrister in 1871. Edmund married a lady called Jean Mason Ross and had 2 daughters …showed first 75 words of 600 total…

…showed last 75 words of 600 total…at the parliament house in August 1903. Sir Edmund Barton retired as Prime Minster and became a judge of the High Courts for the next 16 years. Alfred Deakin took over as Prime Minister. Sir Edmund Barton Died on January 7th 1920 of a heart attack in Medlow bath in New South Wales at the age of seventy. “For the first time a nation for continental and a continent for a nation” -Barton campaign slogan By Nathan Holloway