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Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet (17 July 179921 March 1878), was an Australian hotelier, water-colour artist and historian, who was responsible for the early development of Port Melbourne. ==Early life and career== Liardet was born on 17 July 1799 at Chelsea, London to Wilbraham Liardet and his wife Philippa Evelyn.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn (1799–1878) )〕 His father was an official in the Ordnance Department, from a family of Swiss origin, and his mother, previously the widow of an army Major, Daniel Francis Houghton, was the daughter of Charles Evelyn, Baronet, a descendant of English writer, gardener and diarist John Evelyn.〔 The young Liardet joined the Royal Navy and served aboard before joining the Army. He reached the rank of lieutenant in April 1825 and, the following year, after receiving an inheritance of £30,000,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 The Families of Ballam Park Homestead )〕 he retired on half-pay.〔 In 1821 he married a cousin, Carolina Frederica Liardet, daughter of John Robert James William Tell Liardet, a Royal Marines officer and former Secretary to the British Legation in Madrid and his wife Perpetue Catherine de Paul de Lamanon d'Albe of a 'distinguished' French Huguenot family.〔 Wilbraham and Carolina had a common ancestor in John George Liardet who arrived in England from Switzerland in 1772.〔 The couple had eleven children before 1839 and nine survived: Frank, Fred, Hector, John Evelyn, St. Clere, Josephine Antoinette, Imogen, Leonora and Frances. Caroline and Alonzo died of scarlet fever in London and Felicia and Rosalie died in infancy at Sandridge.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wilbraham Liardet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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