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About Francis Cadell
Francis William Cadell was a Scottish explorer of Australia, mostly remembered for opening the Murray River up for transport by steamship and for his activities as a blackbirder, where he systematically kidnapped Indigenous people to work as slaves on his pearling and trepanging interests in northern Australia.
Everything about Francis Cadell →- Occupation
- explorer, slave trader
- Citizenship
- Australia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- February 9, 1822
- Died
- March 1879