He could easily have been talking about Sydney in the 1810s, and the improbable sagas of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, his talented but irascible convict architect, Francis Greenway, and the colony ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Francis Greenway. Sentenced to death for forgery, he became a celebrated architect in Australia. For anyone with even the vaguest ...

But on the side of the church is another, easily ignored and almost apologetic plaque: “In memory of Francis Greenway, architect of ... a place where unskilled convict labour was plentiful ...

The building, designed by architect Francis Greenway—himself a convict—was Australia’s first government-built convict barracks. It marked a shift from the early days of the penal colony when ...

Or, in the case of Francis Greenway, a combination of both. He is one of those figures mentioned in school history courses, with a note that he was a forger turned architect. Enough of his ...

For at least a century after convict transportation ended in ... Henry Savery; celebrated architect Francis Greenway; and,William Buckley, “the wild white man” who escaped captivity and ...