George Gawler

George Gawler, KH ( born July 21, 1795 † May 7, 1869 ) was the second Governor of South Australia.

Military career

Gawler was born in 1795 as the son of Captain Samuel Gawler and his wife Julia, née Russell. After Gawler had two years visited the Military College Great Marlow, he was in October 1810 in the 52nd ( Oxfordshire ) Regiment of Foot convened and adopted in January 1812 with his regiment in the Napoleonic Wars in the Iberian peninsula in part. Until the return of his regiment to the UK Gawler remained in Madrid. He then accepted, now a lieutenant at the battle of Waterloo part. With the occupying army he remained until 1818, then in France, before 1820 Mary Cox married. From 1823 to 1826 Gawler was stationed in New Brunswick, and sat down together one with his wife for social activities. After his return to England he was from 1830 to 1832 responsible for recruiting within the army. After he rose to the rank of Lieutenant - Colonel in 1834, he received the Knight's Cross of Guelph 1837 Order.

Governor of South Australia

In 1838 Gawler was appointed Governor of South Australia. It replaced the discrepancies due to Britain beorderten John Hindmarsh. As the new governor in October 1838 in South Australia arrived the state had few financial resources and 4000 immigrants inhabited only temporary constructions. The sum, which was allowed to spend a year Gawler, was £ 12,000. In addition, he received a loan of £ 5,000 for emergencies. He succeeded Charles Sturt to persuade him from New South Wales to follow in order to work as Surveyor General of South Australia. Surts task was to create reports and to replace Colonel William Light, who resigned from his position as Surveyor General due to deteriorating health and lack of personnel. Gawler relied more colonial officials and founded a Polizeieineit. He also improved the facilities at Port Adelaide. The first Government House of the State was also built on Gawlers reason.

Since 1840 Australia has been affected by drought, Gawler wanted to prevent a famine and were over £ 200,000 from which the funds from London were completely exhausted and the state went bankrupt. The British Parliament approved a cash bond in the amount of £ 155,000 (which did not have to be repaid later). Gawler was replaced on the post as governor by George Edward Grey.

After Gawler named places

After the Gawler Town of Gawler were, and named the Gawler Ranges in the north of the Eyre Peninsula.