About Henry Sandford King
Lived 1862 – 1930 (aged 67–68). Henry Sandford King was a geographer.
Henry Sandford King (1862 - 1930) was an Australian geographer who served as the Surveyor General of Western Australia from 1918 to 1923.
Biography
He was born in Creswick, Victoria, Australia in May 1862.
He married Dorothea Lefroy (daughter of Gerald de Courcy and Elizabeth Brockman) in 1886. They had six children.
He died in 1930 in Papua New Guinea. The cause of his death was determined to be pneumonia.
Education
He completed his schooling at Geelong Grammar School.
The Lake King, Western Australia is named after him.
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Australian geographer
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Henry Sandford King was a geographer.
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