Moore, George Fletcher (1798-1886)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
George Fletcher Moore (10 December 1798 – 30 December 1886) was a prominent early settler in colonial Western Australia, and "one [of] the key figures in early Western Australia's ruling elite" (Cameron, 2000). He conducted a number of exploring expeditions; was responsible for one of the earliest published records of the language of the Australian Aborigines of the Perth area; and was the author of Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia.

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Moore 1842.pdf|Moore, G. F. 1842. A descriptive vocabulary of the language in common use amongst the aborigines of Western Australia. London: W. S. Orr, xiii + 171 pp.]]