Gladstone -a northern colony & intended convict settlement.
On 17th February 1846, Queen Victoria signed Letters Patent establishing the Colony of North Australia, and the British government passed a law to define its boundaries. Lieutenant Colonel George Barney was appointed Lieutenant Governor and superintendent of North Australia to administer the new colony on behalf of Governor Fitzroy. In September 1846, Barney arrived back in Sydney in the William Hyde, having received his new commission for the secretary of State for the Colonies, William Ewart Gladstone.
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