John Pascoe Fawkner
Australian politician (1792–1869) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other people named John Faulkner, see John Faulkner (disambiguation).
John Pascoe Fawkner (20 October 1792 – 4 September 1869) was an early Australian pioneer, businessman and politician of Melbourne, Australia. In 1835 he financed a party of free settlers from Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania), to sail to the mainland in his ship, Enterprize. Fawkner's party sailed to Port Phillip and up the Yarra River to found a settlement which became the city of Melbourne.