 Between 1849 and 1878, Sturt served as Police Magistrate and Superintendent of Police in Melbourne.Evelyn was educated at the Sandhurst Military College, and in 1836, at the young age of twenty, he migrated to New South Wales, travelling on the "Hooghly", a ship of 466 tons which had previously been used as a convict transport vessel and was under the command of George Bayly at that time.Sturt arrived in Sydney on 12 October that year.