- Ernest Favenc
Ernest Favenc (
21 October 1845 cite web |url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040169b.htm |title=Favenc, Ernest (1845 - 1908) |accessdate=2007-08-10 |author=H. J. Gibbney |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 4 |publisher=MUP |year=1972 |pages=160] –14 November 1908 ) was an explorer ofAustralia , a journalist and historian.Early life
Favenc was born in
Walworth ,Surrey ,England . OfHuguenot descent, he was the son of Abraham George Favenc, merchant, and his wife Emma, née Jones. He was educated at theWerderscher Gymnasium ,Berlin and atTemple College ,Cowley ,Oxfordshire .Career
Favenc arrived in
New South Wales in 1864, and, after being in the colony for about a year, in a commercial position, he afterwards worked in the pastoral industry in the frontier squatting districts ofQueensland .Favenc wrote under the pseudonym of "Dramingo", often for the "Queenslander", and was an accomplished pencil sketcher. In 1878 he was selected to explore the country along the western border of Queensland to Darwin to see if a railway could be constructed and in the early 1880s also undertook expeditions in the country to the south of the
Gulf of Carpentaria and north-west ofWestern Australia .He is chiefly remembered for his exploration, part of the
European Exploration of Australia , but he also published romances, children's stories and verse as well as several books on exploration, the most extensive being "The History of Australian Exploration".On the original launch of this book in 1888 the "
The Daily Telegraph (Australia) " reported...Favenc's first publication was "The Great Austral Plain" in 1887, "The Last of Six: Tales of the Austral Tropics" appeared in 1893, followed by "The Secret of the Australian Desert" (a short novel) in 1895, "Marooned on Australia" and "The Moccasins of Silence", both in 1896.
Favenc died in
Sydney in 1908.References
Additional resourcecs listed by the Australian Dictionary of Biography:
*"Evening News" (Sydney), 16 Nov 1908
*"Town and Country Journal", 18 Nov 1908
*CSO 3554/87 (State Library of Western Australia)
*Northern Territory files, 1884, 1886 (State Records of South Australia)
*manuscript catalogue under Ernest Favenc (State Library of New South Wales).Works
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* [http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html#letterF Works by Favenc] at [http://gutenberg.net.au Project Gutenberg of Australia]
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