Person Paterson; William (1755 - 1810) Paterson William 1755 - 1810 British Male Montrose, Scotland, United Kingdom 17 August 1755 17550817 On board the ship HMS 'Dromedary' 21 June 1810 18100621

Soldier; Colonial official Botany Education: Trained in horticulture at Syon in London Career: Entered the army; went on expeditions in South Africa (1777-1779); gazetted to the 98th Regiment and sent to India; chosen to command a company of the New South Wales Corps to protect convict settlement at Botany Bay, Australia (went there 1791); served in command on Norfolk Island (November 1791-March 1793), whilst there he collected botanical, geological and insect specimens and sent them to Joseph Banks PRS; Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales (1794, 1806-1808); in 1795, Paterson gave an order that resulted in the massacre of a number of men, women and children of the Bediagal tribe in retaliation for the killing of two settlers; led an expedition to the Hunter Region (1801); in 1804 led a settlement expedition to Port Dalrymple in the north of Van Diemen's Land and became Commandent of the colony (1804-1808) where he again collected specimens for Banks; administered government at Sydney as acting Lieutenant Governor after deposition of William Bligh FRS (1809); Paterson River and Mountain, New South Wales, and Paterson Creek, Tasmania, named after him, died on the passage home to England, off Cape Horn on HMS 'Dromedary' Hottentot is a now deprecated term referring to the people of the Western Cape of South Africa, while Caffraria referred to the Eastern Cape Fellow 10/05/1798 42 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Wikipedia References: Connor, John 'The Australian frontier wars, 1788-1838' , (Sydney) 2005 Smith, N. 'William Paterson: amateur colonial botanist, 1755–1810’, in Australian Garden History, 17 (1), 2005, pp. 8–10. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 'Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria' 1798, which he dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks 17 Aug 1755 - 21 Jun 1810 NA3049 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 05/06/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/14941228 061ba128-ffd5-483f-b335-f615c9979b24