A mining expert and journalist. Austin's only certain artwork is a signed pencil drawing entitled 'Adelaide, South Australia from the West End of Hindley Street, November 1849'.
sketcher, lithographer, farmer, journalist, mining consultant and accountant, was born in London, eldest son of the Rev. John Baptist Austin who subsequently purchased 500 acres at Macclesfield, South Australia.
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