Person
Paterson, William (1755 - 1810)
FRS
- Born
- 17 August 1755
Scotland - Died
- 21 June 1810
at sea - Occupation
- Explorer and Naturalist
Summary
William Paterson, soldier and Lieut-Governor of New South Wales, was an amateur naturalist who collected botanical, geological and insect specimens for Joseph Banks in Britain. He made several inland expeditions in Eastern Australia.
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- New South Wales Colonial Secretary's Office - Records, 1799 - c. 1930, ML MSS 681; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- William Paterson - Records, 1794 - 1806, FM 4/2700; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Joseph Banks - Records, 1745 - 1820, MS 9; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Fletcher, Brian H., 'William Paterson, 1755-1810' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
- MacMillan, David S., 'Paterson, William (1755-1810), soldier, explorer and lieut-governor' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 2: 1788 - 1850 I-Z, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967), pp. 317-319. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020284b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Smith, Nan, 'William Paterson: amateur colonial botanist, 1755 - 1810', Australian garden history, 17 (1) (2005), 8-10. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1716747. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/14941228. Details
- 'Paterson, William (1755-1810)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1463013. Details
See also
- Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Australian botanists:- (a) general; (b) New South Wales', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, 42 (1908), 60-132. Details
- Pybus, Cassandra, A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2024), 318 pp. https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Cassandra-Pybus-Very-Secret-Trade-9781761066344. Pages 84, 95-100 - friend of Denis Considen. Details
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 August 2006
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