George Bouchier Worgan

George Bouchier Worgan

George Bouchier Worgan (May 1757 – 4 March 1838) was an English surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. Worgan recorded many of the events of the first year of the colony of New South Wales.

Worgan's surviving papers, in the form of a letter to his brother in England, are now held at the Mitchell Library.

References

*cite book | first=Jack | last=Egan | title=Buried Alive: Sydney 1788-92 The Making of a Nation | publisher=Allen & Unwin | location=St Leonards, New South Wales | year=1999 | id=ISBN 1-86508-138-8
*cite web | url = http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P002780b.htm | title = Bright Sparcs Biographical Entry: Worgan, George Bouchier (1757 - 1838) | accessdate = 30 January | accessyear = 2007


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