JEANNERET, CHARLES EDWARD (1834-1898), steamboat-owner and politician, was born on 9 February 1834 in Sydney, the eldest son of Henry Jeanneret. His father, born on 31 December 1802 in London, was apprenticed to an Oxford surgeon in 1817-22 and went to the University of Paris (B.L., 1823), the City Dispensary, London (L.S.A., 1824), and the University of Edinburgh (L.R.C.S.; M.D., 1825), where he was president of the Plinian Natural History Society. He practised in London until 1828 when he applied for a post in Australia but was recommended for a land grant in proportion to his capital. Reluctant to sell out before certain that the colonial climate would suit him, he was assured at the Colonial Office that he could visit Sydney and reserve land while he returned to England to sell his property. He arrived at Sydney in December 1829 and soon ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography