Person

Kennedy, Edmund Besley Court (1818 - 1848)

Born
5 September 1818
Guernsey, Channel Islands
Died
December 1848
Cape York Peninsula, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Surveyor and Explorer

Summary

Edmund Kennedy was assistant Surveyor of New South Wales 1840-1848. He was killed while on an expedition from Rockhampton to Cape York.

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Edmund Besley Court Kennedy - Records, 1845 - 1854, FM 4/1723; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Edmund Besley Court Kennedy - Records, 1845 - 1854, mfm G 28192; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Carron, Wm, Narative of an expedition: undertaken under the direction of the late Mr Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy, for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and CapeYork (Sydney: Kemp and Fairfax, printer, 1849), 97 [ie 125] pp. Details

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Beale, E., 'Edmund Besley Court Kennedy', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 35 (1949). Details

Resources

See also

  • MacGillivray, John, Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake: commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S., etc., during the years 1846 - 1850, including discoveries and surveys in New Guinea, the Louisade Archipelago, etc., to which is added the account of Mr E. B. Kennedy's expedition for the exploration of the cape York Peninsula, 2 vols (London: T. & W. Boone, 1852). Details
  • Olsen, Penny; and Russell, Lynette, Australia's first naturalists: indigenous peoples' contribution to early zoology (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2019), 223 pp. Details
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
  • West, Francis, 'Stanley, Owen (1811-1850), naval officer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 2: 1788 - 1850 I-Z, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967), pp. 470-471. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020436b.htm. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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