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although it was raised that he may not be eligible to serve as he was technically still in priest's orders despite leaving the Church, nevertheless he served in the
Assembly until 1871 when he moved to Fiji. While in Fiji Macartney neglected his family and his wife moved to New Zealand to stay with
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Macartney was born in Armagh, Ireland, and he married a woman named Anna Maria in
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children. In 1873 he filed for insolvency due to losses sustained in the cotton industry. He moved to
Emerald Hill at some point where his wife lived with him again but he continued to behave abusively especially when drunk and his wife filed a restraining order against him.
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as a sleeping draught and drank an entire bottle causing an overdose and he died on 2 June 1878. An inquiry was held into his death with witnesses who knew him shortly before his death expressing that he had not seemed suicidal. He was buried in St. Kilda
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