30 June 1914 - Eighty-Five Years Ago
"A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR" - HOW DR. WILSON CAME TO PERTH. (By "Nomad").
The eager hospitality which Perth offers to "distinguished visitors" is renowned throughout Australia, and by this time should, in these universal globe-trotting days, be fairly well known throughout the world. It should be of interest, therefore, to recall the impressions of the first distinguished visitor whom Western Australia entertained. He dropped in, so to speak, in October 1829, on his way home to England by a route which fortune made most marvellously circuitous. Dr. T. B. Wilson, was a Royal Navy surgeon, an M.D., scientific observer, a good judge of land, and a member of the Royal Geographical Society. He had as surgeon in charge of a convict ship, brought to Botany Bay a freight of 200 human beings without losing a single head; and he decided to go straight home again in the Governor Ready a merchant ship of 512 tons- a big boat for those days. He paid his passage, and went abroad at Hobart on April 2, 1829 and he reached London in the Surrey on August 25. 1830-after
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- 1"EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO." The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954) 30 June 1914: page 8. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26909414
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