Death and Family
Sir Edmund Barton died from heart failure at the Hydro Majestic Hotel, Medlow Bath, New South Wales. He was interred in South Head General Cemetery in the Sydney suburb of Vaucluse (see Waverley Cemetery). He was survived by his wife and six children:
- Edmund Alfred (29 May 1879 – 13 November 1949), a New South Wales judge
- Wilfrid Alexander (1880–1953), first NSW Rhodes Scholar (1904)
- Jean Alice (1882–1957), married Sir David Maughan (1873–1955) in 1909
- Arnold Hubert (3 January 1884-1948), married Jane Hungerford in Sydney 1907; he later emigrated to Canada
- Oswald (8 January 1888 – 6 February 1956), medical doctor
- Leila Stephanie (1892–1976), married Robert Christopher Churchill Scot-Skirving in London 1915
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