John Clements Wickham (1798–1864)

Naval officer and magistrate. First lieutenant on HMS Beagle, 1831–6; commander, surveying the Australian coast, 1837–41. Settled in Australia in 1842. Police magistrate in New South Wales, 1843–57; government resident, 1857. Left Australia and took his family to southern France in 1862.

Sources

Aust. dict. biog.

R. Desmond 1994