George Johnston (British Marines officer)
George Bain Johnston ( born March 19, 1764 in Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, † January 5, 1823 ) was for a short time after the Rum Rebellion Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales, Australia.
Military career
He was a lieutenant in the Navy since 1776 and second in 1778 was promoted to lieutenant. After his service in America and the East Indies, he went to New South Wales as a lieutenant in the Marine with the First Fleet. He worked as an aide to the Governor Arthur Phillip and was ordered in 1790 to Norfolk Iceland and later moved to the New South Wales Corps, where he was captain in September 1792.
In September 1796, he was promoted adjutant of John Hunter and in 1800, to major. In the same year, William Paterson took him under arrest on charges of " paying spirits to a sergeant as part of his pay - and disobedience of orders" ( German: sale of alcoholic liquor to a Serganten on their own account - and for non-compliance of instructions. ) He was provided and Hunter court-martialed sent him back to England. There were problems with the court-martial verdict, the procedure was stopped and he came back in 1802 to New South Wales. In 1803, he became temporary commanding officer of the New South Wales Corps and because Paterson was ill, he was drawn into a conflict between Philip Gidley King and the military. In March 1804, he acted decisively in the rebellion at Castle Hill. As it Paterson to Port Dalrymple (now Launceston ) sent, he became commander of the New South Wales Corps.
On January 26, 1808, he played the key role in the armed conflict, the Rum Rebellion. Johnston led the troops that William Bligh made available to him, as lieutenant governor and pushed ensure that legal and other official concerns aside. This was entirely unlawful and the arrangements of the judiciary were reduced to absurdity and there was strong uproar among the settlers.
Johnston was lieutenant-colonel on 25 April 1808 and on 28 July he replaced veteran officer Joseph Foveaux, the Lieutenant Governor in Norfolk Iceland was. He sailed for England with Macarthur in March 1809 and Henry Fulton and was therefore placed in the May 1811 court-martial, which found him guilty of mutiny and sentenced to a fine. This extremely lenient sentence was due to the fact that the court found that he was merely the tool of others.
He went to New South Wales back as a private person and lived on his land in Annandale, Sydney, died on January 5, 1823 and left a large family. At first he was buried in a private mausoleum on his property Annadale, but after the division of the land he was buried in a mausoleum on the new Waverley Cemetery in 1904.
Legacy
Johnston were granted far-reaching land rights in the area of Petersham, Bankstown and Cabramatta. The district of Georges Hall bears his name as well as his farm house and the land near the station at the Georges River and Prospect Creek on.
The building still exists today and is now one of the oldest houses in this country. Johnston had more land rights in the suburb of Annandale obtained, which is named after its property and after his birthplace. He and esters of Abraham worked in agriculture and lived in this country with their children until 1870, when it was divided and sold for the construction of residential buildings. The main street of Annandale is named after Johnston and the entrance of their property is now at the bottom of Annandale Public School.