Nationality Australian Occupation Pastoralist | Name Frank Wittenoom | |
Full Name Francis Frederick Burdett Wittenoom Died September 1939, Perth, Australia | ||
Francis "Frank" Frederick Burdett Wittenoom (17 December 1855 – 11 September 1939) was an explorer and pastoralist in Western Australia.
Contents
Early life
Frank Wittenoom was born in York, Western Australia in 1855. He was the grandson of John Burdett Wittenoom one of the first chaplains in the Swan River Colony. His brother was Sir Edward Charles (Horne) Wittenoom, a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for thirty four years.
Career
He took up farming in Western Australia. Additionally, he was the first European to explore much of the Murchison, Gascoyne and Pilbara areas of the north-west of Western Australia.
He built a Queen Anne style house in Perth, called "The Terraces", in the late 1890s and extended it in 1900. In 1987, the house was classified by the National Trust and has been added to the State Heritage Register.
Death and legacy
Wittenoom never married. He died in Perth, Western Australia, aged 83. The town of Wittenoom, Western Australia was named after him by Lang Hancock with whom he shared a nearby pastoral lease.