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Last Name Dawes

Given Name William

alt. Names W. D. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1762 in Portsmouth, Hampshire

Year died 1836

Place of death Antigua, West Indies

Father's occupation clerk of works in the Ordnance Office at Portsmouth Benjamin Dawes

Relatives Elizabeth Dawes (née Sinnatt)

Education

Country of Activity Australia

Worked for "A map of all those parts of the territory of New South Wales which have been seen by any person belonging to the settlement established at Port Jackson..." (London: Published by John Stockdale Piccadilly, 1792) ;

Patronage

Collaborators William Wilberforce (1759-1833) ; Watkin Tench (1758-1833) ;

Techniques botanical illustration and cartographical drawing ;

Sample(s) https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230635598/view ;

Archival sources https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/dawes-william.html ; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dawes_(Gouverneur) ;

Published sources

other Further Places of Activity: West Indies, United States of America, United Kingdom, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, and France (?). Australian botanical illustrations surfaced that are attributed to William Dawes, these are now held by the the Dixon Library, State Library of NSW.

Further archival source: https://williamdawes.org .

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