Light, Colonel William
Light, Colonel William (1784–1838). Surveyor-General of South Australia, he founded and laid out Adelaide from 1837 on a generous plan with six large squares, the whole development surrounded by a green belt of parkland, the first to be realized on any scale.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
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