Randolph Want

Randolph John Want (1811 – 28 June 1869) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born in London to surgeon John Want and Mary Nott. He migrated to New South Wales in 1829 and was granted land near Camden; in 1837 he was admitted as a solicitor. On 28 September 1839 he married Harriette Lister, with whom he had nine children; one of these, John Henry Want, would be a significant politician in the latter half of the nineteenth century. From 1856 to 1861 he was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council; he was also a pioneer of shale mining in New South Wales. Want died in 1869.