StreetFrancis Greenway DriveSuburbCherrybrookDetailsFrancis Howard Greenway (1777-1837) arrived in Australia in the convict ship General Hewitt in February 1814, having been convicted of the crime of forgery in 1812 and sentenced to transportation. Befriended by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, Greenway was employed in planning the township of Sydney. He was pardoned in 1816 and appointed as Civil Architect and Assistant Engineer in that year. He is considered a leading exponent of late Georgian architecture in Australia. He designed and built numerous large buildings, many of which are still standing. These include the lighthouse at South Head, St Matthew's at Windsor and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. When Cherrybrook was being subdivided from 1979 onwards, the developers chose colonial architects as a theme for naming some street. None of the architects and surveyors were associated with or lived in Cherrybrook.
SourcePatrick, Trevor G. 1994, Street Names of Pennant Hills and Surrounding Suburbs of Beecroft, Cheltenham, Cherrybrook, Thornleigh, Westleigh and West Pennant Hills, Silicon Quill, Hornsby, p.30.Map[1] LinkFrancis Greenway - convict architect
