Colonel William Light (1786 - October 6 1839) was a distinguished military officer and latterly Surveyor-General of South Australia. He was born in Kuala Kedah, Malaya in 1786, an illegitimate son of Captain Francis Light, the Governor of Penang, and Martina Rozells, of mixed Siamese and Portuguese descent. He died in Adelaide, South Australia, from tuberculosis. Wikipedia
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