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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Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 3240/1899’.

  • Orlovich, P. (1974), 'John Frederick Mann’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, (Volume 5), [Pike, D., (ed.)], Melbourne, Vic.

  • Balint, E. (1991), 'The inventive mind of Gother Kerr Mann’, Heritage Australia, (Winter 1991).

  • Gibbney, H. J. & Smith, A.G. (1987), 'A Biographical Register 1788-1939’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Kerr, J. S. (1982), 'Design for Convicts’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1844), NSW Government Gazette, Sydney, NSW, (Volume 1).

  • 'Mann Family Papers’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (manuscript).

  • 'Surveyor’s sketchbooks’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (B441).

  • (2 January 1844), NSW Government Gazette.

  • Kerr, J. S. (1984), 'Cockatoo Island’, Sydney, NSW.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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