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Francis Thomas Gregory
1821–1888
An English-born explorer who helped map little-known parts of Western Australia before moving into public life in Queensland. His journeys to the Gascoyne and Pilbara regions made his name, and his journals preserve a vivid record of colonial exploration in Australia.
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Journals of Australian Explorations
by Augustus Charles Gregory, Francis Thomas Gregory
About the author
Born in Nottinghamshire in 1821, he came to Australia as a child with his family and grew up in Western Australia. He worked in surveying and joined expeditions with his older brother, Augustus Gregory, before leading important journeys of his own.
He became best known for exploring the Gascoyne region in 1858 and the Nickol Bay area in 1861, travels that added to European knowledge of inland and northwestern Western Australia. He later published accounts of these expeditions, which helped secure his place in Australian exploration history.
In the 1860s he moved to Queensland, where he served in public office and sat in the Legislative Council. He died in 1888, remembered both as an explorer and as part of a family closely tied to the colonial history of Australia.