John Macarthur (colonial officer)

British Army officer and landowner (1767–1834)

John Macarthur (1767 – 11 April 1834) was a British Army officer, landowner, and politician, best remembered as a key organiser of the 1808 Rum Rebellion and a pioneer of the Australian Merino wool industry. Born in England, Macarthur joined the nascent New South Wales Corps in 1789; he quickly established himself as a particularly unscrupulous, volatile, and entrepreneurial member of the so-called 'Rum Corps'. Macarthur imported the first Merino Sheep to New South Wales in 1797.

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