Ellis Bent b. 1783

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
A sketcher, lawyer and diarist, Ellis Bent's journal, which features sketches of his 1809 journey from England to New South Wales via the Cape of Good Hope, is held by the National Library of Australia.

Citations

  • Bent, Ellis (1809), 'Journal of a voyage from England to the Cape of Good Hope being part of a voyage to New South Wales’, mss (National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT), Illustrated.

  • 'NSW Death Records : V18153475 2B/1815’.

  • Currey, C. H. (1966), 'Bent, Ellis (1783 – 1815)’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, Melbourne University Press, pp 87-92.

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