Badgery Pavilion

Badgery Pavilion

In 1868 the first Badgery took up a position on the RAS Council – Henry was a stock and station agent, and the managing director of Pitt, Son, and Badgery.  He conducted the first sale of cattle at Homebush and was one of the greatest stock auctioneers of his time, earning the nickname ‘the King of Homebush’. Little did he know not only would his family association with the RAS continue to this day with Badgerys on the current Council but the place he held the first auctions and was ‘king’ of would go on to honour his family with a pavilion named Badgery and that it would be unveiled by a future King.

William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge unveiled the Southee and Badgery Pavilion plaque at Sydney Olympic Park on 18 April 2014, giving the Arts & Crafts and Flower & Garden pavilions their official names.

The Badgery family has given over a century and a half of service to the Royal Agricultural Society and almost continuously from Henry onwards a member of the Badgery family has been on the Council.