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See also:MITCHELL, See also:SIR See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:LIVINGSTONE (1792-1855) , Australian explorer, was See also:born at Craigend, See also:Stirlingshire, See also:Scotland, on the 16th of See also:June 1792. From 18o8 to the end of the See also:Peninsular See also:War he served in See also:Wellington's See also:army, and was raised to the See also:rank of See also:major. He was appointed to survey the battlefields of the See also:Peninsula, and his See also:map of the See also:Lower See also:Pyrenees is still admired. In 1827 he was appointed See also:deputy surveyor-See also:general, and after-wards surveyor-general of New See also:South See also:Wales. He made four exploring expeditions between 1831 and 1846, and discovered the See also:Peel, the Namoi, the Gwyder and other See also:rivers, traced the course of the See also:Darling and See also:Glenelg, and was the first to penetrate into that portion of the See also:country which he named See also:Australia See also:Felix. His last expedition was mainly devoted to the See also:discovery of a route between See also:Sydney and the Gulf of See also:Carpentaria, and during the See also:journey he explored the See also:Fitzroy See also:Downs, and discovered the Balonne, See also:Victoria, Warrego and other streams. In 1838, while in See also:England, Mitchell published his Three Expeditions into the Interior of See also:East Australia. In 1839 he was knighted and made a D.C.L. of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. During this visit he took with him some of the first specimens of See also:gold and the first See also:diamond found in Australia. In 1848 the narrative of his second expedition was published in See also:London, See also:Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia. In 1851 he was sent to See also:report on the See also:Bathurst goldfields, and in 1853 he again visited England and patented his See also:boomerang propeller for steamers. He died at Darling Point, Sydney, on the 5th of See also:October 1855.
Besides the above See also:works, Mitchell wrote a See also:book on See also:Geographical and Military See also:Surveying (1827), an Australian See also:Geography, and a See also:translation of the Lusiad of See also:Camoens. During his See also:tenure of See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office as surveyor-general he published an admirable map (still in use) of the settled districts of New South Wales.
End of Article: MITCHELL, SIR THOMAS LIVINGSTONE (1792-1855)
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