Bennelong
Woollarawarre Bennelong (c. 1764 – 3 January 1813), also spelt Baneelon, was a senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal Australian 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 the colony of New South Wales and in the United Kingdom.
Bennelong | |
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Portrait (signed "W.W.") thought to depict Bennelong | |
| Born | c. 1764 |
| Died | 3 January 1813 (aged 48) |
| Other names | Baneelon |
| Spouse | Barangaroo (d. 1791) |
| Children | Thomas Walter Coke |
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