2024 – BROTHER SIR AUGUSTUS CHARLES GREGORY KCMG, MLA, FRGS, DIST G M – AN ICONIC AUSTRALIAN EXPLORER, EXEMPLARY CITIZEN AND NOTABLE FREEMASON – Dr GARY BACON.
The life of this extraordinary man (Birth: 1 August 1819: Farnsfield, Nottinghamshire,
England. Death: 25 June 1905: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) is covered in three tranches,
viz.:
Explorer on the Australian Plateau
State Administrator and Community Leader
Patriarch of Queensland Freemasonry
Gregory’s soldier father had been wounded and in lieu of a pension accepted a land grant in the
new Swan River settlement in West Australia.
The family arrived in 1829 and the mother home schooled the children.
Aided by a neighbour, WA Surveyor-General John Roe, Gregory became a cadet in his department in 1841 and was soon promoted an assistant surveyor.
His resourcefulness, bushcraft, facility for invention and technical expertise won him then confidence of his superiors and he was soon given command of his first expedition.
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2024 - BROTHER SIR AUGUSTUS CHARLES GREGORY KCMG, MLA, FRGS, DIST G M - AN ICONIC AUSTRALIAN EXPLORER, EXEMPLARY CITIZEN AND NOTABLE FREEMASON - Dr GARY BACON.
