Lt. George Grey

Transcribed by Sir George Grey, a British soldier who visited the Swan River Colony in 1837. Grey travelled extensively in the north-west and interior of Western Australia ibn search of large rivers which might be able to sustain a northern Colony. While in the state he took a keen interest in local language and dialects publishing this brief dictionary in the pages of the Perth Gazette over successive editions.

Grey, born in 1812 in Lisbon Portugal, eventually went on to be appointed Governor of South Australia, Governor of New Zealand, Governor of the Cape Colony (South Africa) and finally Premier of New Zealand.

He died in London in 1898, the same year as his wife Eliza Spencer.