biography
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Buckley, William
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nickname the Wild White Man
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1780–1856)
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| biography:
| Convict, born near Macclesfield, Cheshire, NWC England, UK. He was a bricklayer, then joined the army, but was transported to Australia in 1802 for a plot to shoot the Duke of Kent. He escaped the following year from a new convict settlement at Port Phillip, near Melbourne, was adopted by an Aboriginal tribe, and lived with them for 32 years before being found by an expedition. He was pardoned, and employed as an interpreter by the colonel in command of the new colony, then moved to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), where he died. |
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