sketcher, author and medical practitioner, was born in June 1811 at Dunbar, Elgin, Scotland, son of John Kelly and Margaret, née Porteous. He came to South Australia in the Baboo in 1840 and worked as a surgeon in Adelaide. In 1843 he sketched a view of the Adelaide Plains (Mortlock Library). He returned to Britain then came back to South Australia in 1847, settled in Morphett Vale and established a vineyard. He married Annie Worthington in 1855 and they had two sons and three daughters. He published The Vine in Australia (Melbourne 1861), illustrated after his own drawings, and Wine-Growing in Australia and the Teachings of Modern Writers on Wine-Culture and Wine-Making (Adelaide 1867).
Kelly died at his home in the Adelaide suburb of Norwood on 9 October 1877.
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