When did Blaxland Lawson and Wentworth die?

Answer 1

• Gregory Blaxland died on 1 January 1853. Always a turbulent and erratic-tempered man, he committed suicide by hanging himself.
• William Wentworth went on to become a significant figures of early colonial NSW. He died of natural causes at the age of 81 on 20 March 1872.
• William Lawson also died of natural causes in 1850, aged 76.

Answer 2

• William Lawson - born 2 June 1774. He was the son of Scottish parents. There is little information recorded about his childhood, but he was trained as a surveyor.
• William Charles Wentworth - believed to have been born around 26 July 1790 on the 'Surprize', a ship transporting convicts to Australia. The exact date of his birth is unknown since he was born at sea, the son of convict woman, and sources conflict as to even the year in which he was born. Wentworth was a "Currency Lad", one of the first children born into the colony of New South Wales. He enjoyed his status as different from the "English ascendancy," and was an outspoken nationalist, determined to gain civil rights for those who, like himself, were very much in the minority. Life would have been difficult for him in one way, being the son of a convict woman, yet he had the advantage of growing up in Australia, learning about and understanding the bush better, perhaps, than his English-born contemporaries.
• Gregory Blaxland - 17 June 1778. Little is known about Blaxland's early life as he was born in Engalnd and only arrived in Australia in April 1806, as a free settler. He was the fourth son of the mayor of Fordwich, Kent, England, so he did have high ambitions. He was the real catalyst to the expedition that crossed the Blue Mountain, because he was so keen to find new land, expand his own land interests, and become an even wealthier landowner.