Giles Edward Strangways (1819 – 24 February 1906) was a pioneer of the British colony of South Australia, an associate of John Finnis and Charles Sturt.[1] He was a brother of Thomas Bewes Strangways and an uncle of H. B. T. Strangways, a Premier of South Australia.
Giles Strangways was born in Shapwick, Somerset, England, the fourth son of Henry Bull Strangways (died 1829), Colonel-Commandant of the Polden Hills Militia, and Elizabeth Bewes, sister of Thomas Bewes, MP for Plymouth.[2]
Giles Strangways was among the earliest purchasers of South Australia land, and emigrated on HMS Buffalo, along with his brother T. Bewes Strangways, with Captain John Hindmarsh in the First Fleet of South Australia, and was present at the proclamation of the province in 1836.[3]
In 1838 he accompanied Charles Sturt and John Finnis on their overland cattle drive from Sydney to Adelaide, following the River Murray. Later in the same year he accompanied Sturt in his abortive attempt to pass through the Murray Mouth.
By 1856 Giles was living at Port Elliot, advertising his services as a surveyor. By 1872 he was working for the Government Survey Department.
He died at his home at 45 Maesbury Street, Kensington.
- ^ "Mr. Giles E. Strangways". Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 3 March 1906. p. 36. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1886). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 134. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
- ^ Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.