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Vaux, James Hardy

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Vaux, James Hardy (born 1782)

English-born convict, three times transported to Australia for robbery. During his second period in New South Wales 1810–29, he wrote an autobiography Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux which was published in England 1819 with an appendix Vocabulary of the Flash Language, which Vaux claimed to have compiled. This was re-edited and re-published 1964 and serves as a source of convict language usage.



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