Bennelong

Deceased Person

1764 – 1813

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Who was Bennelong?

Woollarawarre Bennelong was a senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal people of the Port Jackson area, at the time of the first British settlement in Australia, in 1788. Bennelong served as an interlocutor between the Eora and the British, both in Sydney and in the United Kingdom.

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Born
1764
Australia
Ethnicity
  • Indigenous Australians
Nationality
  • Australia
Died
Jan 3, 1813
Kissing Point, New South Wales

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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