John Buyer

Type: Person

As of November 2026, John Buyer has been mentioned in one podcast episode on BuzzFeed Unsolved Network (Oct 2025). Identified as a co-creator of the original Lake Dolores oasis in the 1960s, establishing the park's origin story.

John Buyers was the British first officer of the brig Barwell in 1799 on her voyage to China. Later he was the first officer of the brig Margaret as an investment he and John Turnbull made in Turnbull and Co., John Turnbull being his second officer and a historian. The Margaret, after some delay, left England on 2 July 1800, and sailing by way of the Cape of Good Hope, reached Sydney in February 1801. They reached the Society Islands and anchored in Matavai Bay, Tahiti, on 24 September 1802. Aft