Edward Meade Bagot
Edward Meade (also spelled "Mead") "Ned" Bagot (13 December 1822 – 28 July 1886), was a pastoralist and developer who held large properties in Central Australia.
Edward was born in Rockforest, Tubber, County Clare Ireland, the second son of Charles Hervey Bagot and his wife Mary, née MacCarthy. He was educated at a school run by Dr. King in Ennis, County Clare, and groomed for service with the East India Company, but was prevented by a health problem from taking a position. He emigrated to South Australia with his parents and siblings on the Birman, arriving in December 1840.
His father took up a pastoral property at Koonunga in 1841, which Ned helped manage, then in 1843 took a position as accountant and store manager at the newly opened Kapunda copper mine at Kapunda. In 1850 he was appointed a director of the South Kapunda mine.
His properties included the Murthoo Run 1846– , Ned's Corner, on the River Murray, 1854– , Kulnine, Wall Wall, "Beefacres" (now Windsor Gardens) on the River Torrens, from 1853 to 1864, Mudla Wirra (with Richard Bowen Colley) 1865– , description of Beefacres at http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50169874
He purchased Northern Territory lease No.1 and No.2 Undoolya Station, some 10 km east of Alice Springs in 1872, then his son Ted, his stepson James Churchill-Smith (1851 – 3 October 1922), and William Gilbert (1850–1923), son of Joseph Gilbert, drove 1,000 head of cattle to Undoolya Station from Adelaide and built the first homestead.
He took out a pastoral lease on Dalhousie Springs in 1873 and built the homestead (c. 100 km north of Oodnadatta), which is now in ruins. This area figured prominently in the search for Ludwig Leichhardt. Charles Todd ran the Overland Telegraph Line from Port Augusta to Macumba Well (c. 40 km north of Oodnadatta), with Benjamin Babbage supervising that part of the line, which was contracted by Bagot. His son, E. M. "Ted" Bagot, died there in 1881. The property, of 1,788 square miles (4,630 km2) of excellent grazing country was purchased by John Lewis (father of Essington Lewis) in 1896.
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