Media: BOOK - hardcover, 240 pages
Author: J. Worthington
Year: 2015
ISBN: 9781925043198
Other: b&w & colour photos, family trees, appendixes, index
Publisher: Halstead Press

Laurence Halloran's scandalous life - shared with wives, mistresses and 21 children - is a stranger than fiction tour through the high society and low life of a bygone world. An Irish orphan, he navigated sprawling capital cities and rising colonies, preached in churches and wallowed in prisons, founded schools and impersonated clergymen, fought in the Battle of Trafalgar and was transported to Australia for forgery.

Sailor, scholar, educator, murderer, adulterer and bigamist he had burning ambition and a gift for self-destructive behaviour. His lasting legacy was the foundation of a Public Free Grammar School in the town of Sydney in 1826 which continues today.


Cost of book:
hardcover: $39.95
postage within Australia $17.00 per book
For posting overseas postage varies, please contact the author
Payment must be made in Australian dollars, and can be paid by cheque, money order or direct deposit.

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Jan Worthington Genealogy
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