(1758-10-06)6 October 1758 Chester, Cheshire, England
Died
7 May 1833(1833-05-07) (aged 74) Devonport, England
Allegiance
Great Britain (1776–1800) United Kingdom (1800–1827)
Service/branch
Royal Marines
Years of service
1776–1815 1819–1827
Rank
Lieutenant general
Battles/wars
American Revolutionary War French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars
Other work
Writer
Lieutenant General Watkin Tench (6 October 1758 – 7 May 1833) was a British marine officer who is best known for publishing two books describing his experiences in the First Fleet, which established the first European settlement in Australia in 1788. His two accounts, Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson provide an account of the arrival and first four years of the colony.[1]
^Flannery, T. (ed.), 1788 Watkin Tench, The Text Publishing Co., 1996, ISBN 1-875847-27-8
Lieutenant General WatkinTench (6 October 1758 – 7 May 1833) was a British marine officer who is best known for publishing two books describing his experiences...
garden, in the area of the present day Circular Quay. First Fleet marine WatkinTench, in his first-hand account called A Complete Account of the Settlement...
(help) Tench, Watkin; Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956–; Tench, Watkin, 1758 or 9-1833. Complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson; Tench, Watkin...
album in September 2009. Tench penned one of the songs on the album, named "The Price," sung by Sara Watkins and himself. Tench has worked extensively with...
including Governor Phillip's gamekeeper John McIntyre. According to WatkinTench: About one o’clock, the sergeant was awakened by a rustling noise in...
savages", but by the time of Captain James Cook and First Fleet marine WatkinTench (the era of Jean-Jacques Rousseau), accounts of Aborigines were more...
deployment of Aboriginal trackers by Europeans in Australia was in 1791 when WatkinTench utilised Eora men Colbee and Balloderry to find a way to the Hawkesbury...
advance and so he called out "Weeree Weeree" (bad; you are doing wrong). WatkinTench reports in his journal that Phillip took out his dirk (dagger) and threw...
been less dense, particularly in Central Australia and the Top End. WatkinTench, who arrived on the First Fleet in 1788, observed of the Aboriginal languages...
arrived, of what Governor Phillip and others referred to as “smallpox”. WatkinTench, a captain in the Marines, wrote that, "Pustules, similar to those occasioned...
Dramatic Art, graduating in 1987. In 1988, Akuwudike played Captain WatkinTench in Our Country's Good at the Royal Court Theatre. His first film appearance...
30 native speakers. The island was named after British marine officer WatkinTench in 1790 by Lieutenant Philip Gidley King. The island has been designated...
Spain and Portugal established in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. WatkinTench subsequently commented in A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay...
Surgeon Richard Johnson, chaplain Lieutenant George Johnston Captain WatkinTench Lieutenant William Dawes Lieutenant Ralph Clark Captain John Hunter,...
48–49. Beschrijving van den Togt Naar Botany-Baaij....door den Kapitein WatkinTench, Amsterdam, Martinus de Bruijn, 1789, p. 211. Davison, Hirst and Macintyre...
of people at Emu Ford, commenting on their skill with spears, while WatkinTench of the Royal Marines also noted their use of spears, lines and nets to...
Governor Arthur Phillip on 14 April 1791, and this meeting is described by WatkinTench (who spells his name Yellomundee) in his A Complete Account of the Settlement...
Heartbreak High Max Harrison TV series, episode: "4.23" 1997 Frontier Captain WatkinTench TV miniseries 1997 Kangaroo Palace Simon Seymour TV movie 1998 Water...
Machine Dictionary of Australian Biography Tim Flannery (Ed) (1996) WatkinTench, 1788; Comprising a narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay and a complete...
A.). The octet is composed of Watkins, her brother Sean Watkins (guitar), Glen Phillips (guitar, vocals), Benmont Tench (piano), Luke Bulla (fiddle),...
with indigenous Australians. The name was first recorded in 1789 by WatkinTench in his Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay: The only domestic animal...
was well-known to the British settlers; he was described by Captain WatkinTench as a "good-tempered lively lad" who became "a great favourite with us...