Lawrence Kavenagh (born 1805 and died on October 13, 1846) was a bushranger who worked alone robbing mail coaches, homesteads and inns for seven months straight making the Government offer a generous reward for his apprehension in July 1843 but he turned himself in on July 10 after wounding himself from an accidental discharge of his own gun and walking 28 miles to Bothwell.
Lawrence Kavenagh (c. 1805  13 October 1846) was a convict bushranger known for escaping from Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land (the so-called escape proof colony), with Martin Cash and George Jones. 
Now naked, the trio robbed a road gang's hut for clothing, and began a seven month spree of bushranging and robbing mail coaches, homesteads and inns. In July 1843, the Government offered 'one hundred acres of land or one hundred sovereigns, in addition to the reward of fifty sovereigns, free pardon, and passage from the colony, for the apprehension of' Cash, Jones and Kavenagh. 
On 10 July 1843 Kavenagh gave himself up after wounding himself that morning, at Lake Sorell, by the accidental discharge of his own gun while getting over a log. He claimed he walked 28 miles to Bothwell in great pain when he surrendered. 
