Thomas Jamison

Thomas Jamison (* 1753, † January 27, 1811 in London) was a medical doctor, a surgeon. He was a surgeon, government official, traders and landowners to Sydney in Australia. Jamison was a participant of the First Fleet and co-founder of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was later involved in the Rum Rebellion, in which the Governor William Bligh was deposed.

Early years

Jamison was January 10, 1753 in the Presbyterian Church, Ballywalter in Newtownards, County Down in Ireland, the son of William Jamison and his wife Mary, née Fisher, baptized. Jamison went to school in his community, where his family lived. He married early and lived in the neighboring County Antrim, was father of several children ( Mary, John and Jane ) and studied medicine. He decided after his studies to serve in the Royal Navy to see the world and became the surgeon of the Navy either in 1777 or in 1780 appointed and hired from 1786 on HMS Sirius. He was married to Rebecca.

Australia

Jamison arrived in New South Wales in Australia, with the flagship of the First Fleet in January 1788 and the Sirius was sent by Arthur Phillip on the settlement of Norfolk Iceland in March 1788. There he was later appointed by Governor Phillip appointed assistant physician of the colony after the Sirius crashed on the island. He remained at Norfolk Iceland until he was replaced in October 1799 by then until September 1800 to do his service in Sydney. He then went to England where he sailed with the ship in a private matter to Rio de Janeiro in June 1802 and came back to Sydney. In 1801, Philip Gidley King announced Lord Hobart that Jamison was appointed the successor of William Balmain to the Surgeon General of New South Wales.

In 1804 Jamison led by the surgeon John Harris and John Savage, the first successful vaccination of children against smallpox, from the Savage later said that she went back to his initiative. He announced on October 14, 1804, the first medical bulletin Australia, the General Observations on the Smallpox ( German: General study on smallpox), out. In 1805 he exhibited two surgeons Wizard, Mileham and Savage, for neglect of their duties at the court-martial at a child's birth. But the court-martial declared for such offenses did not have jurisdiction. This problem showed that it could no longer be sufficient medical care growing population of Australia. He wanted to change this situation and therefore presented applications to the competent Governor Bligh, who rejected this. In this controversy Jamison requested for himself and his family to be allowed permission to go to England out of the country in 1806, the Bligh said no and only be allowed to travel with the requirement given that he had to see before he left for medical compensation.

Trade and Rum Rebellion

In the aftermath of Governor Arthur Phillip, there was a development that einmündete that rum was traded as a means of payment and that the New South Wales Corps controlled the distribution and sales channels. Bligh accused Jamison, John Macarthur and D' Arcy Wentworth participation in the illegal trade in spirits and that they do not fulfill their missions. He informed the Colonial Office that he considered Jamison incompetent and will therefore dismiss him. So it was no surprise that Jamison was on the side of supporters of impeachment of Bligh. After the ouster of Bligh, he was naval officer in the rebel government, participants in the Committee was that heard Bligh's supporters and sifted through his personal written documents. Jamison sailed to England by the accused Johnston at the court-martial to support.

Jamison was deeply involved in the commercial business. He brought wheat and pigs worth £ 15,000 to the settlers on Norfolk Iceland. With its partners Garnham Blaxcell and Macarthur, he invested a large scale in the timber trade. The dispute over the participation in trading in this business employs his son and Macarthur long after his death. He was given 405 acres on the Nepean River in 1805, where Regent Ville was built later, and he received farms at the George 's River and South Creek; and held 931 acres of land in, 1807. Upon his return to England he wrote the property to his son John Jamison, who came to the colony in 1814.

Thomas Jamison died in London on 27 January 1811 and left his widow Rebecca a pension of £ 30 He had by his death testify no opportunity at the upcoming court-martial proceedings against Johnston that began in June of 1811.

Name

In Australia there is a city Jamisontown, which is about 56 kilometers from Sydney and a street in Sydney. In the Blue Mountains in New South Wales there is a valley, Jamison Valley, part of the Coxs River Canyon system.