Author · Australia
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Died in 1870
Adam Lindsay Gordon was born on 19 October 1833, in the Azores according to Westminster Abbey, at Charlton Kings according to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, the son of a captain of cavalry. He arrived in Adelaide in 1853, served in the mounted police, became a horse breaker and steeplechase rider, and briefly sat in the South Australian parliament. In 1868 he lost his daughter and suffered a serious fall; he took his own life on the beach at Brighton, near Melbourne, on 24 June 1870.
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- PoetrySea Spray and Smoke DriftAdam Lindsay Gordon · 1867LiteraturePublic domain