George Bouchier Worgan

George Bouchier Worgan (1757 to 1838) was an English naval surgeon who sailed with the First Fleet to Australia. After the settlement was founded he made several expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and the Broken Bay area north of Sydney, and he spent a year on Norfolk Island after the ship Sirius was wrecked there, although the article notes there is no evidence that he was aboard when the wreck happened in March 1790. Worgan recorded many events of the first year of the colony of New South Wales in a letter to his brother in England, which includes a journal of the first six months after the fleet reached Sydney Cove. Unlike his contemporary Watkin Tench he did not publish it, and the papers are held at the Mitchell Library in Sydney; the journal was printed in 1978 and again in 2009. He married Mary Lawry in 1793 and died at Liskeard in 1838, with the cause given as apoplexy on his death certificate, though other accounts suggest suicide.