| George Bass |
| Family
Name: |
Bass |
Variant
Spellings: |
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| Given
Names: |
George |
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| DOB |
30 January 1771
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DOD |
1803 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Aswarby, Lincolnshire, England
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Place
of Death: |
At sea |
| Age
at Death: |
32
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| School:
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University:
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| Qualifications:
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Member of the Corporation of Surgeons, London 1789
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Speciality:
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Naval surgeon |
| Other
Occupations: |
Explorer
Naturalist |
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| Spouse:
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Elizabeth Waterhouse m. 1800 |
| Children: |
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| Voyages:
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HMS "Reliance" from England arr. Sydney 7 September 1795
HMS "Reliance" to South Africa and return 1796-1797
"Nautilus" dep. Sydney for Macao May 1799
"Woodford" from China (?) arr. England July 1800
"Venus" dep. England for Sydney 9 January 1801
"Venus" to New Zealand and return
"Venus" dep. Sydney for South America 5 February 1803
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| Came
out as: |
Ship's surgeon |
| Date
Settled Aus: |
1795
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Date
of Departure: |
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| First
Registered: |
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Off
Register: |
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| Addresses:
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Sydney, NSW 1795-1796 (shipping record)
South Africa 1796-1797 (shipping record)
Sydney, NSW 1797-1799 (shipping record)
1800-1801
Australia 1801-1803 |
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| Positions
Held: |
Surgeon's Mate, RN 1789
Surgeon, RN 1790
Surgeon, HM Sloop "Shark" 1790-1793
Surgeon, HMS "Reliance" 1794 |
| Publications:
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| Notes:
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With Mathew Flinders explored S of Sydney in the "Tom Thumb" 1795-6
Explored S and W as far as Western Port Bay in a whaleboat 1797-8
With Matthew Flinders in sloop "Norfolk" travelled through Bass Strait and returned by S of VDL 1798-9
With Charles Bishop purchased ship "Venus" in England 1800, sailing to Australia with a commercial cargo 1801
Commercial voyage to NZ and the Pacific Islands 1801
Embarked in "Venus" for South America 5 February 1803 - not seen again |
| Acknowledgments:
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| References: |
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australian Encyclopaedia
Bowden K.M. George Bass 1771-1803. Melbourne : OUP, 1952
Scott E. George Bass. Medical Journal of Australia 1937;1:165-72
Brown KM. Surgeons in exile at Botany Bay, 1770 to 1816. Bulletin of the Postgraduate Committee in Medicine, University of Sydney 1951;7(1):1-18.
Cleland JB. Some Australian convict and explorer doctors. Medical Journal of Australia 1952;1:252-9
Cleland JB. Medical names in Australian geographical nomenclature. Medical Journal of Australia 1934;1:549-57
Medical Society of Victoria archives file held at Brownless Medical Library, University of Melbourne
Epstein M. Life of George Bass. Sydney : Allen and Unwin, 2005
Pearn J. Doctor in the garden. Brisbane : Amphion Press, 2001
Australian National Botanic Gardens. Biography : biographical notes on plant collectors and illustrators relevant to Australian botany [website]. |
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