William Buckley (convict)
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William Buckley, also known as the "wild white man", was an English bricklayer, and served in the military until 1802, when he was convicted of theft. He was then transported to Australia, where he helped construct buildings for the fledgling penal settlement at Port Phillip Bay in what is now Victoria, Australia.
William Buckley, State Library Victoria, H30879
Buckley's transportation and escape as depicted by 19th century Aboriginal artist Tommy McRae
Aboriginal Australians of Port Phillip, Victoria
Frederick William Woodhouse, The first settlers discover Buckley, 1861, H26103 State Library Victoria
Convicts in Australia
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Between 1788 and 1868 the British penal system transported about 162,000 convicts from Great Britain and Ireland to various penal colonies in Australia.
Convicts in Sydney, 1793, by Juan Ravenet
William Hogarth's Gin Lane, 1751.
Prison hulks in the River Thames, England, 1814
The First Fleet arrives in Botany Bay, 21 January 1788, by William Bradley (1802).