William Edward Riley b. 1807

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
William Edward Riley, pastoralist and sketcher, was a son of the pioneer pastoralist Alexander Riley who had come to New South Wales as a free settler in 1804. The Riley merinos won gold medals awarded by the NSW Agricultural Society between 1827 and 1830.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : V1836857 20/1836’.

  • 'NSW Marriage Records : V1833135 17/1833’.

  • 'NSW Birth Records : V18072069 1A/1807; V180781 5/1807’.

  • Information sourced from Callaway, Anita.

  • Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (Manuscripts: A106, A2011).

  • Conway, J. K. (1967), 'Alexander Riley’, Melbourne, Vic : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, [pp 379-381].

  • Ker, J. (1960), 'Merchants and merinos’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, [46].

Initial data sources

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