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Francis Greenway was sent to Australia as a convict after being banished from England for the crime of forgery.1
Upon his arrival in New South Wales in 1814, he became a prominent figure in the colony's development. He served as a convict-architect under the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie, playing a key role in transforming the early penal settlement into a more established town by designing several notable Georgian-style buildings, such as the Hyde Park Barracks and St. James Church.21