Francis Thomas Gregory
1821–88
Surveyor and explorer in Australia. Assistant surveyor, Western Australia, 1847–9; staff surveyor, 1849. Commanded an expedition to the Gascoigne River in 1858. Campaigned for the establishment of a colony on the north-west coast of Australia. Awarded the founder’s medal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1863. Brother of Augustus Charles Gregory.
Source
Aust. dict. biog.
Bibliography
Aust. dict. biog.: Australian dictionary of biography. Edited by Douglas Pike et al. 14 vols. [Melbourne]: Melbourne University Press. London and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1966–96.
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