Edward Wilson Landor

Born in Lancashire in 1811, Edward Wilson Landor was a lawyer, scholar, writer, and one of the early British settlers in Western Australia. Sources describe him as part of the Landor family connected to Walter Savage Landor, and note that he arrived in the colony with his brothers in 1841.

In Western Australia, he combined legal work with settler life and became known as an early colonial writer. He is best remembered for The Bushman: Life in a New Country, a novel drawn from his experience of the colony, and for his place among the writers who recorded its difficult early years.

Landor died in 1878. Although not widely known today, his work remains valuable for readers interested in nineteenth-century Australian writing and firsthand views of colonial society.