William Paterson (explorer)
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Personal details | |
Born | Montrose, Scotland | 17 August 1755
Died | 21 June 1810 At sea aboard HMS Dromedary off Cape Horn | (aged 54)
Spouse | Elizabeth Driver |
Military service | |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Branch/service | British Army |
Years of service | 1781–1810 |
Rank | Colonel |
Unit | 98th Regiment of Foot 73rd Regiment of Foot |
Commands | New South Wales Corps |
Early years
A native of Montrose, Scotland, Paterson was interested in botany as a boy and trained in horticulture at Syon in London.[3] Paterson was sent to the Cape Colony by the wealthy and eccentric Countess of Strathmore to collect plants, he arrived in Table Bay on board the "Houghton" in May 1777. He made four trips into the interior between May 1777 and March 1780, when he departed. In 1789 Paterson published Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria,[4] which he dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks.[5]
Career
Paterson was originally commissioned as an
In 1794 he served for a year as
In May 1795, following the alleged killing of two settlers Paterson ordered two officers and 66 soldiers to:
destroy as many (Aboriginal Australians) as they could meet with ... in the hope of striking terror, to erect gibbets in different places, whereon the bodies of all they might kill were to be hung ...[9]: p 288
Seven or eight
In 1801, Paterson fought a duel with John Macarthur and was wounded in the shoulder.[11]
He led an expedition to the
Between 1804 and 1808 Paterson was also appointed
The New South Wales Corps selected Paterson as acting Governor of New South Wales on 1 January 1809 after the deposition of Governor Captain William Bligh in the so-called "Rum Rebellion." He was replaced by the newly arrived Lachlan Macquarie by the end of the year. He left Sydney for England on 12 May 1810, but died on board HMS Dromedary while off Cape Horn just a few weeks later.[11]
His widow Elizabeth married Francis Grose, Paterson's predecessor as Lieutenant Governor, in April 1814, but Grose died a month later. Elizabeth died in Liverpool, England in 1839.[11]
The standard author abbreviation Paterson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[15]
References
- Portland Guardian and Normanby General Advertiser (Vic. : 1842 – 1876). Vic.: National Library of Australia. 6 January 1868. p. 4. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
- ^ ISBN 9780868407562
- ^ Smith, N., 'William Paterson: amateur colonial botanist, 1755–1810’, Australian Garden History, 17 (1), 2005, pp. 8–10.
- Caffraria referred to the Eastern Cape.
- ^ Paterson, Lieut. William (1789). A Narrative of four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentotts and Caffria. In the Years One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Seven, Eight, and Nine. London: J Johnson.
- ^ "Officers of His Majesty's New South Wales Corps of Foot" in Bladen (ed.) 1978, p. 223
- ^ Smith, N., 'William Paterson: amateur colonial botanist, 1755–1810’, Australian Garden History, 17 (1), 2005, pp. 8–10.
- ^ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660–2007". London: The Royal Society. Retrieved 15 July 2010.
- ^ a b Collins, David (1804). An Account of the English Colony in NSW.
- The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. 12 May 1805. p. 3. Retrieved 25 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ a b Bladen, F. M., ed. (1897), Historical records of New South Wales, Volume 5—King, 1803–1805, Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer, pp. 494–500, archived from the original on 30 March 2011
- ^ "EAST GRETA COAL MINING CO., LTD". Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954). 7 October 1921. p. 6. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ Serle, Percival (1949). "Paterson, William". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Paterson.
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-0868330037.
Further reading
- Alexander, Alison (editor) (2005), ISBN 1-86295-223-X.
- Vernon S. Forbes and John Rourke (1980), Paterson's Cape Travels, 1777 to 1779, Johannesburg, Brenthurst Press. ISBN 0-909079-12-9
- Leonard Guelke and Jeanne K. Guelke (2004), 'Imperial eyes on South Africa: reassessing travel narratives', Journal of Historical Geography.[1]
- Robson, L.L. (1983) A history of Tasmania. Volume 1. Van Diemen's Land from the earliest times to 1855, Melbourne, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-554364-5
- Anne-Maree Whitaker (2004), 'Mrs Paterson's keepsakes: the provenance of some significant colonial documents and paintings', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society.[2]
- ISBN 0-646-43345-8