Lawrence Kavenagh

Lawrence Kavenagh
'Portrait of a man in the dock' by Charles Costantini (c. 1843), a portrait considered likely to be of Lawrence Kavenagh
Bornc. 1810
County Wicklow, Ireland
Died13 October 1846 (1846-10-14)
Norfolk Island
OccupationsCarter, stonemason, bushranger
ConvictionMurder
Criminal penaltyExecution

Lawrence Kavenagh (c. 1810 – 13 October 1846) was an Irish-Australian convict bushranger who, with Martin Cash and George Jones, escaped from Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land, in late 1842. The three men took to bushranging for a six-month period, robbing homesteads and inns with seeming impunity. Kavenagh was tried for serious crimes on five separate occasions. He was executed in 1846 at Norfolk Island.

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