Family
He died 27 May 1864, aged 84.
His son Robert Torrens, the colonial Premier of South Australia, invented the Torrens title system of registering land titles, which is widely used in the British Commonwealth and other states (e.g. Iowa) and countries.
Read more about this topic: Robert Torrens (economist)
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