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Definition of Matthew Flinders
1. Noun. British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matthew Flinders
Literary usage of Matthew Flinders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Naval Officers: Their Heredity and Development by Charles Benedict Davenport (1919)
"Matthew Flinders. Matthew Flinders was born, March 16, 1774, at Donington, England.
He studied in the high school, from his twelfth to his fifteenth year, ..."
2. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"By Matthew Flinders, Esq. Commander of His Majesty's Ship Investigator. In a
Letter to the Right Hon. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius: In the Courts of Queen's by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Andrew Valentine Kirwan, Great Britain Court of Exchequer (1850)
"... in the county of Middlesex, impleaded the said Matthew Flinders Pearson in an
action on the case for the committing by the said Matthew Flinders Pearson ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1869)
"1845,in the Court of our Lady the Queen, before tho Queen herself at Westminster,
in the county of Middlesex, im- pleaded the said Matthew Flinders Pearson ..."
5. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1890)
"... Second Voyage— A Maori Attack—The Third and Last Voyage—Settlement of Convicts
at Sydney—French and English—Matthew Flinders and George Bass—The Tom ..."
6. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1888)
"... Attack—The Third and Last Voyage—Settlement of Convicts at Sydney—French and
English —Matthew Flinders and George Bass—The Tom Thumb—Southward Ho ! ..."
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