Lieutenant George Gravatt (1815–1843) was an officer in the British Army.[1] In May 1839, he succeeded Sir Sydney Cotton[2][3] as commander of the Moreton Bay penal settlement in what is now Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.[4] He held the position for three months.[5]

Gravatt was born in Woolwich in London in 1815.[6]

His service in the Moreton Bay penal settlement is remembered in the naming of Mount Gravatt, a mountain and suburb in Brisbane.[7][8]

Gravatt was transferred with his regiment, the 28th Foot Regiment, to Karachi India, where he died in 1843.[6][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Mount Gravatt and Mount Gravatt East". Queensland Places. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "Pioneers Dinner. Back to Mt Gravatt Wednesday 26 July 1933". The Brisbane Courier. p. 12. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  3. ↑ Cranfield, Louis (24 October 1963). "Early Commandants Of Moreton Bay" (PDF). UQ Library. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Appleton, Richard and Barbara (1992). The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39506-2.
  5. ↑ Cranfield, Louis R. (Louis Radnor), 1927- (1 January 1964), Early commandants of Moreton Bay, Royal Historical Society of Queensland, retrieved 10 October 2020{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. 1 2 "Mount Gravatt - Brisbane".
  7. ↑ "Mount Gravatt – hill in the City of Brisbane (entry 14672)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  8. ↑ "Mount Gravatt – suburb in the City of Brisbane (entry 47600)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  9. ↑ "Do You Know Where Mount Gravatt's Name Comes from?". Mount Gravatt News. Retrieved 31 July 2021.


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