Adam Lindsay Gordon was a British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician. He was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and according to his contemporary, writer Marcus Clarke, Gordon's work represented "the beginnings of a national school of Australian poetry".
- Occupation
- poet, politician, writer, jockey
- Position held
- Member of the South Australian House of Assembly
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Australia
- Born
- October 19, 1833, 1833
- Died
