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Robert Edwin Bush was a British explorer, businessman, sportsman, and politician who was primarily known for his activities in colonial Western Australia. Arriving there in the 1870s, he was one of the settlers in the Gascoyne region and took up a number of pastoral lease. He served on the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1890 to 1893. He eventually returned to England where he was a High Sheriff of Bristol and Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.
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