From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Colonel William Light (1786 - 1839) was born in Malaya in 1786, a son of Captain Francis Light, the Governor of Penang, and Martina Rozells, the so-called "Princess of Kedah" of mixed Siamese-Portuguese descent.
In 1835, Light was appointed Surveyor-General to the new colony of South Australia, where he laid out the street plan of the city of Adelaide which persists to this day.
