Early Life
In 1796 young Wentworth arrived in Sydney, then a squalid prison settlement, with his D'Arcy and Catherine. The family lived at Parramatta, where his father became a prosperous landowner. In 1802 he was sent to England, where he was educated at a school in London. He returned to Sydney in 1810, where he was appointed acting Provost-Marshall by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and given a land grant of 1,750 acres (7 km2) on the Nepean River.
On 15 October 1810, at Hyde Park, now in the centre of Sydney, Wentworth rode his father's horse Gig to victory in the first official horse races on Australian soil.
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