George Bouchier Worgan

George Bouchier Worgan (May 1757 – 4 March 1838) was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. He made several expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay areas north of Sydney and spent a year on Norfolk Island after the Sirius was wrecked there.^[1] Worgan recorded many of the events of the first year of the colony of New South Wales. Unlike his contemporary Watkin Tench, he did not publish his account.

Worgan's surviving papers, in the form of a letter to his brother in England, are now held at the Mitchell Library in Sydney. The letter includes a journal kept for the first six months after the First Fleet's arrival in Sydney Cove.^[2] The journal was published in 1978^[3] and in 2009.^[4]

References

^ Jose, Nicholas (general editor) Macquarie Pen Anthology of Australian Literature Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2009 p.51
^ Jose, Nicholas, 2009 p.51
^ Worgan, George Journal of First Fleet Surgeon Sydney:Library Council of New South Wales in association with the Library of Australian History, 1978
^ Worgan, George Sydney Cove Journal: 20 Jan – 11 July 1788 edited, with an introduction and notes by John Curry. Malvern, Vic.:Banks Society, 2009

Egan, Jack (1999). Buried Alive: Sydney 1788-92 The Making of a Nation. St Leonards, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-138-8.
"Bright Sparcs Biographical Entry: Worgan, George Bouchier (1757 - 1838)". http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P002780b.htm. Retrieved 30 January 2007.

Persondata
Name	Worgan, George Bouchier
Alternative names
Short description	English naval surgeon
Date of birth	1757
Place of birth
Date of death	4 March 1838
Place of death