LANDON, Samuel (1775-) - Captain
Commanded the City of London, Indiaman on two voyages from Britain: St Helena and Bengal in 1803/1804; and Bombay in 1805/1806. Lachlan Macquarie was a passenger on the outward voyage from Portsmouth to Bombay [25 April 1805 - 11 August].
Career: Samuel Landon served extensively on ships of the East India Company (HEIC), firstly, as a seaman on Nottingham in 1788/1789; then midshipman on True Briton in 1790/1791; 6th mate on Earl of Chesterfield in 1792/1793; 4th mate on Minerva in 1794/1795; 3rd mate on Hillsborough in 1796/1797; 2nd mate on Nottingham 1800/1801; Captain on City of London in 1802/1803 and 1804/1805; and Captain on Arniston in 1809/1810.
Macquarie, L. Journal: 24-25 April 1805.
[see: Farrington, A. A Biographical Index of East India Company Maritime Service Officers 1600-1834. p.457.

LAWLOR, Martin
Assistant cook. Convict servant to the Macquaries.

LAYCOCK, Hannah (1758-1831)
Wife of Quartermaster Thomas Laycock Senior (c.1756-1809)[NSW Corps].

LEWIN, John William (1770-1819)
Artist [NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online; Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870. (ed.) Joan Kerr. Melbourne: Oxford University Press,1992].

LEWIN, William Arden (c.1809- ?)
Son of John William Lewin (1770-1819).

LEWIS, George (1750-1790) - Dr.
Surgeon on the HEIC ship Dublin in 1788/1789.
Sources: Macquarie, L. Journal: 30 March 1788; Farrington, A. A Biographical Index of East India Company Maritime Service Officers 1600-1834. p.472.

LOCK, Maria (c.1805-1878)
Daughter of Yarramundi, 'Chief of the Richmond Tribes'. The family belonged to the Boorooberongal clan of the D(h)arug people. Maria was admitted to the Parramatta Native Institution on 28 December 1814 when Yarramundi's clan attended the inaugural annual conference hosted for the Aborigines by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. In 1819 the Sydney Gazette reported that an Aboriginal girl of 14 had won first prize in the anniversary school examination, ahead of twenty children from the Native Institution and almost 100 European students. That girl was probably 'Maria' who was reported by teachers to be well in advance of other students.

In 1822 she married Dicky, a son of Bennelong (and a member of the Richmond clan through his mother) who had been in the Native Institution. However within weeks of his marriage he became ill and died and was buried on 1 February 1823 at St John's Church of England, Parramatta. Maria subsequently married Robert Lock (1800-1854), an illiterate, convict carpenter, on 26 January 1824. The marriage was the first officially sanctioned union between a convict and an Aboriginal woman.
Sources: Brook, J. and Kohen, J.L. The Parramatta Native Institution and the Black Town: a history. Kensington: UNSW Press, 1991; and Kohen, James. The Darug and Their Neighbours: the traditional Aboriginal owners of the Sydney region. Blacktown: Darug Link, 1993; Australian Dictionary of Biography: Supplementary Volume; also available online].

LORD, Edward (1781-1859)
Officer of marines, commandant, pastoralist and merchant in VDL.
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online; A Companion to Tasmanian History. (ed.) Alison Alexander. Hobart: Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, University of Tasmania, 2005].

LORD, Maria [nee Riseley] (c.1780-1859)
Convict and entrepreneur, wife of Edward Lord (1781-1859).
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online; Alexander, Alison. Obliged To Submit: wives and mistresses of colonial governors. Hobart: Montpelier Press, 1999].

LORD, Simeon (1771-1840)
Emancipist, entrepreneur, merchant in NSW.
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 2; also available online].

LUTTRELL, Edward (1756-1824) - Dr.
Surgeon [NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

LYCETT, Joseph Lycett (c.1775-1828)
Artist [NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online; Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870. (ed.) Joan Kerr. Melbourne: Oxford University Press,1992; Joseph Lycett: convict artist. (ed.) John McPhee. Sydney: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2006].

LYTTLETON, William Thomas (1784-1839) - Lieutenant
Military officer: 73rd Regiment; served in NSW/VDL: 1810-1814, Ceylon: 1814-1820, returned to Tasmania as a settler. Died: 7 June 1839, in London.
[NSW; Van Diemen's Land]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online; Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870. (ed.) Joan Kerr. Melbourne: Oxford University Press,1992].

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