Australian Dictionary of Biography (online) 26 April 2020: (Thomas James Lempriere (1796-1852), public official, author and artist, was born on 11 January 1796 at Hamburg, Germany, the son of Thomas Lempriere, a British banker and merchant of Norman-Jersey descent. In 1822 T. J. Lempriere emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in the Regalia. He became a merchant and a foundation shareholder in the Bank of Van Diemen's Land. He was employed as a storekeeper in the Commissariat Department, becoming deputy assistant commissary general in 1837, and assistant commissary general in December 1844. On 25 May 1846 he was also appointed a coroner for Tasmania. He was recalled to England in 1849 for immediate transfer as assistant commissary general in Hong Kong. After a brief service there he was invalided home in 1851 but died on the voyage on 6 January 1852. He was buried at Aden. He kept regular diaries, and was recognised as as a painter of landscapes and portraits, andwas a keen naturalist.) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lempriere-thomas-james-2349
His The penal settlements of early Van Diemen's Land, 1954: t.p. (Thomas James Lempriere) p. 6 (d. 1852)
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