Gother Kerr Mann b. 1809

Also known as G. K. Mann
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Architect
Irish male colonial engineer and soldier who travelled to India, New Zealand and Australia. In the process, he designed weapons and prisons, sketched Maori chiefs, had twelve children, and was a principle architect and superintendent of the Cockatoo Island colony.
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Name
Gother Kerr Mann
Also known as G. K. Mann
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer)
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
  • Architect
Other Occupation
  • Army officer (ANZSIC code: 7600) -
  • Civil engineer (ANZSIC code: 6923) -
  • Architect (ANZSIC code: 6921) -
Birth date
1809
Birth place
Ireland
Death date
1899
Death place
St Leonards, Sydney, NSW
Active Period
  • c.1837 - c.1857
Arrival
  • c.1836 (Artist left India in 1836, travelled to New Zealand in 1837, and settled in Sydney, NSW, in 1838.)
Residence
  • c.1870 - c.1899 Greenwich House, Greenwich, Sydney, NSW
  • c.1858 - c.1870 Biloela, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, NSW
  • c.1852 - c.1858 Greenwich House, Greenwich, Sydney, NSW
  • c.1838 - c.1852 Sydney, NSW
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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References [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records : 3240/1899'.>, <ExternalResource: Orlovich, P. (1974), 'John Frederick Mann', Australian Dictionary of Biography, (Volume 5), [Pike, D., (ed.)], Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Balint, E. (1991), 'The inventive mind of Gother Kerr Mann', Heritage Australia, (Winter 1991).>, <ExternalResource: Gibbney, H. J. & Smith, A.G. (1987), 'A Biographical Register 1788-1939', Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: Kerr, J. S. (1982), 'Design for Convicts', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: (1844), NSW Government Gazette, Sydney, NSW, (Volume 1).>, <ExternalResource: 'Mann Family Papers', Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (manuscript).>, <ExternalResource: 'Surveyor's sketchbooks', Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (B441).>, <ExternalResource: (2 January 1844), NSW Government Gazette.>, <ExternalResource: Kerr, J. S. (1984), 'Cockatoo Island', Sydney, NSW.>] [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records : 3240/1899'.>]