Watkin Tench

Watkin Tench (born c. 1758, England?—died May 7, 1833, Devonport, Devonshire, Eng.) was a British army officer whose two books about early Australia have become classics. Commissioned a lieutenant in the British army (1778), Tench shipped out for Australia nine years later as a captain lieutenant of marines, arriving in Botany Bay on Jan. 20, 1788. A year later he published in London A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay, in which he described...