Bennelong

Bennelong
Portrait (signed "W.W.") thought to depict Bennelong
Bornc. 1764
Died3 January 1813 (1813-01-04) (aged 48)
Other namesBaneelon
SpouseBarangaroo (d. 1791)
ChildrenThomas Walter Coke

Woollarawarre Bennelong (c. 1764 – 3 January 1813), also spelt Baneelon, was a senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal Australian people of the Port Jackson area, at the time of the first British settlement in Australia[broken anchor] in 1788. Bennelong served as an interlocutor between the Eora and the British, both in the colony of New South Wales and in the United Kingdom.