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Aken, John, master of the Investigator, was imprisoned on Mauritius with Flinders. He was released in 1805 and left the island on the American ship James.
Alder, George, carpenter's mate on the Investigator, was imprisoned on Mauritius with Flinders and released at the same time as John Aken.
Arifat, Madame d', owner of Le Refuge, the plantation at Wilhems Plains in the interior of Mauritius where Flinders lived for the last five years of his captivity.
Arifat, Delphine d', eldest daughter of Madame d'Arifat.
Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820), botanist, accompanied James Cook on his first Pacific voyage. He was instrumental in the foundation of the colony of New South Wales and maintained a deep interest in its progress. He took a special interest in Flinders, becoming his friend and patron.
Bass, Elizabeth, née Waterhouse (1768-1824), sister of Henry Waterhouse, married George Bass in 1800.
Bass, George (1771-1803), naval surgeon, sailed to Sydney in 1795 with Flinders on the Reliance. Shortly after arriving he and Flinders made two hazardous voyages in open boats to explore the coast south of Sydney. In 1797 he discovered Western Port and deduced that there was a strait separating Tasmania from the mainland. This was confirmed in 1798-99 when he and Flinders circumnavigated Tasmania in the Norfolk. Bass disappeared in 1803 during a trading voyage to South America.
Baudin, Augustin, brother of the French navigator Nicolas Baudin, as captain of a Danish ship he visited Flinders on Mauritius in 1805.
Baudin, Charles (d.1854), midshipman on the Geographe under the command of Nicolas Baudin (no relation) during his voyage to survey the Australian coast, 1800-1804. Flinders became acquainted with him at Port Jackson and met him again on Mauritius in 1806 and 1807.
Baudin, Thomas Nicolas (1754-1803), French navigator, sailed from France in 1800 in command of an expedition to survey the coast of Australia. In April 1802 he met Flinders in Encounter Bay, South Australia. He died on Mauritius on the return voyage.
Bauer, Ferdinand (1760-1826), botanical artist, sailed on the Investigator and
returned to England in 1805 with over 2000 drawings of plants and animals.
Bell, Hugh, surgeon on the Investigator.
Bell, Thomas and Nathaniel, two of five 'Young Gentlemen' who took turns to occupy the vacant positions of two midshipmen on the Investigator.
Bellasis, George (d. 1825), an officer in the East India Company's artillery, transported to Sydney in 1802 for killing his opponent in a duel. He left the colony in 1803 after receiving a pardon.
Bentinck, Lord William, governor-general of Madras.
Bergeret, Jacques, commander of the French privateer La Psyché. He was a frequent and sympathetic visitor to Flinders during his imprisonment on Mauritius until his ship was captured by an English frigate and he was taken prisoner to India. In June 1805 he was returned to Mauritius in an exchange with English prisoners of war.
Bickham, Martin, American merchant on Mauritius.
Bishop, Charles (1765?-1810), captain of the snow Nautilus and George Bass' trading partner.
Bligh, William (1754-1817), British naval officer, commanded HMS Bounty on a voyage to transport breadfruit trees from Tahiti to the West Indies. After the celebrated mutiny he sailed an open boat across the Pacific to Coepang. Flinders joined him as a midshipman on a second breadfruit voyage in the Providence in 1791. Bligh later became governor of New South Wales.
Board of Longitude: established in 1714 to encourage and reward the invention of an accurate method of determining longitude.
Bonner, Charles, Flinders' friend.
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de (1729-1811), French navigator, completed the first French circumnavigation of the world, 1766-1769.
Bowles, William, attorney and friend of Flinders.
Brown, Robert (1773-1858), botanist, sailed on the Investigator and returned to England in 1805 with over 3000 species of plants. He became secretary to the Linnean Society and to Sir Joseph Banks.
Campbell, John, of Campbell & Co., merchants at Calcutta.
Campbell, Robert (1769-1846), merchant, opened a branch of his family's Calcutta-based trading company in Sydney in 1800.
Cartel: a ship employed in the exchange or ransom of prisoners.
Chapman, Robert (d. 1803), marine on the Investigator.
Chaptal, Jean-Antoine-Claude, Comte de Chantaloup (1756-1832), French statesman and chemist.
Charrington, Edward, boatswain on the Investigator.
Collins David (1756-1810), deputy-judge-advocate of NSW, 1788-1796 and lieut- governor of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), 1803-1810. In 1798 he published An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales. A second volume appeared in 1802.
Cook, James (1728-1779, British naval officer, made three important voyages of discovery in the Pacific. On his first voyage, 1768-1771, he charted the east coast of Australia and claimed it for Britain.
Crosley, John, astronomer, sailed with Flinders on the Investigator in 1801 but was forced by ill health to leave the ship at the Cape of Good Hope.
Cumberland: In 1803 Flinders sailed from Sydney for England in the colonial built schooner Cumberland. However she proved to be so unseaworthy that he decided to seek assistance at Mauritius.
Dale, Alfred, midshipman, captured by the French while serving on the Dedaigneuse and imprisoned on Mauritius with Flinders. He was released in July 1805 in an exchange of prisoners of war.
Dalrymple, Alexander (1737-1808), hydrographer to the East India Company and to the Admiralty.
Dampier, William (1652-1715), buccaneer and navigator, explored the north-west coast of Australia in 1688 and 1699.
Decaën, Charles Mathieu Isidore, Comte (1769-1832), French soldier, appointed captain-general (governor) of the Ile de France (Mauritius) in 1802.
Douglas, Charles, boatswain on the Invesitgator, died of dysentery on 17 May 1803.
Draper, John, quartermaster on the Investigator, died of dysentery on 2 June 1803.
Elder, John, acting master at arms of the Investigator, and Flinders' servant on Mauritius. He was eventually repatriated in an American vessel in 1807. Entrecasteaux, Antoine Raymond de Bruni d' (1737-1793), commander of the expedition which sailed from France in 1791 in search of the missing navigator, La Perouse.
Evans, Thomas, master's mate on the Investigator.
Flacq: a small defensive settlement on the north-east coast of Mauritius.
Fleurieu, Charles Pierre Claret, Comte de (1738-1810), geographer, hydrographer and administrator, encouraged French scientific research and exploration in the Pacific.
Flinders, Ann, née Chappelle (d. 1852), married Flinders in 1801.
Flinders, Elizabeth, née Weekes, Flinders' stepmother.
Flinders, Hannah, Flinders' half sister, a child of his father's second marriage. She married Joseph Dodd.
Flinders, Henrietta, Flinders' cousin, daughter of his uncle John. She married John Newbald.
Flinders, John, Flinders' uncle.
Flinders, Samuel (1782-1834), naval officer, Flinders' younger brother and second lieutenant on the Investigator.
Flinders, Susanna, Flinders' sister. She married George Pearson, a draper.
Fowler, Robert, naval officer, first lieutenant on the Investigator.
Franklin, James (d.1834), Flinders' cousin by marriage and brother of Sir John Franklin, entered the East India Company's service as a cadet in 1805. He served with distinction on various Indian surveys and was elected a member of the Royal Society
Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847), naval officer and Arctic explorer, was Flinders' cousin by marriage and served as midshipman on the Investigator. He later became lieutenant-governor of Tasmania.
Franklin, Thomas (d. 1807), Flinders' cousin by marriage and the eldest brother of Sir John Franklin.
Franklin, Willingham (1779 -1824), Flinders' cousin by marriage and the brother of Sir John Franklin. Their father was also named Willingham.
Geographe: one of two ships under the command of the French navigator Nicolas Baudin on his voyage to map the coast of Australia, 1800-1804.
Glos, Jacques de, a merchant of Mauritius.
Good, Peter (d. 1803), gardener on the Investigator.
Greenhalgh, James, sergeant of marines on the Investigator, died of dysentery on 26 May 1803.
Greville, Charles Francis (1749-1809), Fellow of the Royal Society and an associate of Sir Joseph Banks.
Grimes, Charles (1772-1858), surveyor-general of NSW, received a grant of land at Toongabbie, near Sydney in 1794. Flinders based some of his charts on surveys done by Grimes.
Hawkesbury, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool and Baron Hawkesbury (1770-1828), British foreign secretary, 1801-03 and home secretary, 1804-09.
Henry, Captain (later Major) and his wife were prisoners with Flinders in the Maison Despaux on Mauritius.
Heywood, Peter (1773-1831), naval officer and one of the Bounty mutineers. He was pardoned and attained post-rank.
Hillier, William, quartermaster on the Investigator, died of fever and dysentery on 21 May 1803.
Hunter, John (1737-1821), naval officer, came out to Sydney in the First Fleet in 1788 and again in 1795 with Flinders on the Reliance to take up the governorship of New South Wales.
Hursthouse, Charles, a friend of Flinders and the son of John Hursthouse.
Hursthouse, John, a friend of Flinders' father and an executor of his will.
Ile de France or Isle of France: now Mauritius
Investigator: Flinders was given command of the Investigator in 1801 to undertake a voyage to survey the Australian coastline.
Johnson, Captain, commander of a Dutch brig, acted as interpreter for Flinders on Mauritius.
Kemp, Anthony, (1773?-1868), an officer in the New South Wales Corps who also operated as a merchant in Sydney.
Kent, Eliza (d. 1810) arrived in Sydney in 1802 with her husband William, commander of HMS Buffalo and accompanied him on another voyage in 1803 to Bengal.
Kent, William (1751-1812), naval officer, arrived in Sydney in October 1802 in command of HMS Buffalo. He was employed by Governor King in survey work and transporting cattle to the colony.
King, Anna Josepha (1765-1844), wife of Governor Philip Gidley King.
King, Elizabeth (b. 1797), the third daughter of Philip Gidley King.
King, Philip Gidley (1758-1808), came out to Sydney in the First Fleet and was governor of New South Wales, 1800-806.
Lacy, Denis, an Irish midshipman on the Investigator.
Lalande, Joseph-Jérôme de (1732-1807), French astronomer.
Larkins, Thomas, commander of the East Indiaman Warren Hastings which was captured by the French privateer La Piémontaise in June 1806 and brought to Mauritius. On his release Larkins secretly carried Flinders' narrative and letters with him to England.
Linois, Charles Alexandre Léon Durand de (1761-1848), French naval officer, appointed commander of the Indian Ocean fleet in 1802.
Lound, Sherrard, son of Flinders' old schoolmaster, Job Lound, and a midshipman on the Investigator.
Macarthur, Elizabeth (1766-1850) came out to New South Wales in 1790 with her husband John Macarthur. She lived at Elizabeth farm, Parramatta for over 40 years and had a prominent role in the development of the Australian wool industry.
Maison Despaux: In March 1805 Flinders was removed to the place where British officer prisoners of war were confined, variously known as the Maison Despaux, the Jardin Despaux or the Garden Prison.
Marsden, William (1754-1836), secretary to the Admiralty and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811) astronomer royal, established the 'Nautical Almanac', invented the prismatic micrometer and made many important observations.
Monistrol, Colonel, aide-de-camp to General de Caen, governor of Mauritius.
Murray, John (b.1775?), naval officer, charted Westernport in the brig Lady Nelson and took possession of Port Phillip in 1802. In the same year he sailed from Port Jackson in company with Flinders on his voyage in the Investigator but the Lady Nelson proved unfit and Flinders ordered Murray to return.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), became first consul of France in 1799 and emperor in 1804.
Naturaliste: one of two ships under the command of the French navigator Nicolas Baudin on his voyage to map the coast of Australia, 1800-1804.
Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805), vice-admiral, defeated the French-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.
New Holland: the name given to the western half of Australia by Dutch explorers in the 17th century.
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), scientist and mathematician.
Ogilvie, Robert, midshipman, sailed with Flinders in the Providence on William Bligh's second breadfruit voyage, 1791-1793.
Olive, John, Flinders' clerk on the Investigator. He did not volunteer to join Flinders on the Cumberland after the wreck of the Porpoise.
Osborn, John, naval officer, commanded a British naval squadron blockading Mauritius.
Palmer, John (1760-1833), commissary-general of New South Wales.
Paterson, Elizabeth, (d. 1825) wife of William Paterson.
Paterson, William (1755-1810), commander of the New South Wales Corps and lieutenant-governor of the colony.
Pellew, Sir Edward, Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833), admiral and commander-in-chief in the East Indies, 1804-1808.
Piastre: a name for the Spanish piece of eight, or dollar.
Pitot, Thomas (1779-), a merchant in the town of Port North West on Mauritius (Isle of France). He visited Flinders regularly and the two formed a lasting friendship.
Porpoise: In August 1803 Flinders sailed for England on the Porpoise. Shortly after leaving Sydney she struck a reef and was lost. Flinders sailed her cutter back to Sydney and arranged for the rescue of the rest of the crew who were stranded on the reef.
Port Jackson: the port of Sydney, New South Wales.
Poudre d'Or: a small defensive settlement on the north-east coast of Mauritius.
Purdie, Robert, surgeon's mate on the Investigator.
Quested, George, captain of the whaler Speedy.
Robertson, Walter, a surgeon on the Bengal establishment who was a fellow prisoner with Flinders on Mauritius.
Shortland, John (1769-1810), naval officer, came out to New South Wales in the First Fleet in 1788 and again in 1795 as first lieutenant of the Reliance with Flinders and Bass.
Simmonds, John (d. 1803), seaman on the Investigator.
Sinclair, Kennet, one of the 'young gentleman' on the Investigator.
Smith, Christopher, botanist, sailed with Flinders in the Providence on William Bligh's second breadfruit voyage, 1791-1793.
Smith, Thomas, a convict seaman on the Investigator, died of dysentery.
Smith, William, seaman, served on the Investigator and was imprisoned on Mauritius with Flinders.
Society of Emulation: a literary society formed in 1802 by the scientists left on Mauritius by Nicolas Baudin during his voyage to survey the Australian coast, 1800-1804.
Spencer, George, Earl (1758-1834), First Lord of the Admiralty 1794-1801, strongly supported Flinders' voyage of exploration in the Investigator.
Standert, Osborne, Flinders' agent in London.
Standert, William Augustus, took over from his father Osborne as Flinders' agent in London.
Sykes, James, a naval agent in London.
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, Prince of Benevento (1754-1838), French foreign minister under Napoleon.
Temple, Mr, John Aken's former employer.
Thistle, John, master of the Investigator drowned with seven members of the crew in Spencers Gulf, South Australia when the ship's cutter they were using was upset.
Trepang: a marine animal, also called sea-slug or bêche-de-mer, eaten as a luxury by the Chinese.
Trim, Flinders' cat on his various voyages.
Troubridge, Sir Thomas (1758?-1807), naval officer, served in a number of significant naval actions including the battles of St Vincent and the Nile. In 1807 he was commander of the East India Station.
Troughton, Edward (1753-1835), a scientific instrument maker with whom Flinders had an account.
Tyler, Isabella (d. 1867), half-sister of Ann Flinders.
Tyler, Reverend William (1749-1808), Flinders' step father-in-law.
Tyler, Mrs (d. 1823), Flinders' mother-in-law.
Vancouver, George (1757-1798), naval officer, sailed on James Cook's second and third voyages. In 1791 he sailed on a voyage of discovery during which he surveyed the south-west coast of Australia, New Zealand and the north-west coast of America.
Vashon, James (1742-1827), naval officer (later admiral) under whom Flinders' cousin, John Flinders, served in the 1780s.
Wastreen, Oloff (d. 1803), seaman on the Investigator.
Waterhouse, Henry (1770-1812), naval officer, came out to New South Wales in the First Fleet in 1788 and again in 1795 as second commander of the Reliance with Flinders and Bass. In 1800 he was promoted to captain but failed to rise any further in the navy.
Wellesley, Richard, Marquis (1760-1842), governor-general of India,1797-1805.
Westall, William, landscape artist , sailed with Flinders on the Investigator.
Whitewood, John, master's mate on the Investigator.
Wiles, James, botanist, sailed with Flinders in the Providence on William Bligh's second breadfruit voyage, 1791-93. He later settled in Jamaica from where he maintained a regular correspondence with Flinders.
Wilhems Plains: an area in the interior of Mauritius where Flinders lived for the last five years of his captivity.
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