18/19th-century English-Australian farmer and explorer
Gregory Blaxland
Portrait, 1813
Born
(1778-06-17)17 June 1778
Kent, England
Died
1 January 1853(1853-01-01) (aged 74)
New South Wales, Australia
Burial place
All Saints Parramatta
Known for
1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains
Spouse
Elizabeth Spurdon ( - 1826)
Children
7 - John Blaxland
Parents
John Blaxland (father)
Mary Parker (mother)
Gregory Blaxland (17 June 1778 – 1 January 1853) was an English pioneer farmer and explorer in Australia, noted especially for initiating and co-leading the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains by European settlers.
GregoryBlaxland (17 June 1778 – 1 January 1853) was an English pioneer farmer and explorer in Australia, noted especially for initiating and co-leading...
The 1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains was the expedition led by GregoryBlaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth, which became the first...
Blaxland can refer to: GregoryBlaxland (1778–1853), pioneer farmer and explorer in Australia, brother of John Jasper Blaxland (1880–1963), English consultant...
Asian communities. The division was created in 1949 and is named after GregoryBlaxland, a farmer and an early Australian explorer of the Blue Mountains in...
local Taribelang clansmen. GregoryBlaxland Jr, the seventh and youngest son of the pioneer, farmer and explorer GregoryBlaxland (17 June 1778 – 1 January...
across the Blue Mountains to Bathurst by an expedition jointly led by GregoryBlaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth. Towns in the Blue Mountains...
estate was acquired by D'Arcy Wentworth in 1805 and then by GregoryBlaxland in 1807. Blaxland was a free settler who arrived in 1806 from Kent, where his...
successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by GregoryBlaxland in 1813, 25 years after the colony was established. People, starting...
our party consisting of Mr. GregoryBlaxland, Lieutenant Lawson and Myself with four servants quitted Mr. GregoryBlaxland's farm on the South Creek and...
speared on the property while herding sheep. GregoryBlaxland, the 7th son of the eponymous explorer GregoryBlaxland took vengeance, heading a vigilante posse...
squatters GregoryBlaxland Jnr and William Forster established a sheep station. Blaxland was a son of the Blue Mountains explorer, GregoryBlaxland, and Forster...
the German alliance. May 11 – 1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains: GregoryBlaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth leave on an expedition to cross...
reintroducing native species to other streams. The creek in named in honour of GregoryBlaxland, a pioneer farmer and explorer who was granted land in the Orchard...
wife or members of the British aristocracy. In 1813 he authorised GregoryBlaxland, William Wentworth and William Lawson to conduct their successful crossing...
1813 in Australia featured a number of important developments. GregoryBlaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth crossed the Blue Mountains...
built for John Blaxland, whose entrepreneurial business activities were among the oldest in the colony, and whose brother, GregoryBlaxland, assisted in...
pronouncement, some settlers continued to try crossing the mountains. GregoryBlaxland was the first to successfully lead an expedition to cross them in 1813...
field marshal and politician, Governor of Minorca (d. 1796) 1778 – GregoryBlaxland, English-Australian explorer (d. 1853) 1800 – William Parsons, 3rd...