 Harry Dashboard

Harry Dashboard, pen-name of the Australian newspaper poet identified as James Riley (1795–ca.1860), who also wrote under other pseudonyms including “Felix.”
James Riley (or Ryley) was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1795.In 1824 he was tried at the Old Bailey in London for the theft of two shillings, convicted and sentenced to seven years transportation, arriving in New South Wales in August 1825 aboard the convict transport "Minstrel."