James Harding (explorer)

James Harding
Born1838
England
Died13 November 1864(1864-11-13) (aged 25–26)
Lagrange Bay, Australia
Cause of deathMurder
Occupation(s)Explorer, pastoralist
Known forKilled in the La Grange Massacre

James Harding (1838 – 13 November 1864) was a British-Australian pastoralist and explorer in colonial Western Australia. While exploring in the Kimberley region in 1864, he was killed by Aboriginal Australians. In February 1913, a monument to Panter, Harding, Goldwyer and Brown, the Explorers' Monument, was unveiled in Fremantle.

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