Dr Alexander Collie, Free Settler "HMS Sulphur" 1829

ALEXANDER COLLIE

Surgeon in the Royal Navy; Naturalist and Explorer; Western Australia Pioneer

Alexander Collie, here treated, is the son of Alexander Collie in Wantonwells and Christain Leslie

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COLLIE ALEXANDER ALEXR. COLLIE/ M
02/06/1793 203/ 10 309 Insch

Biographical Summary

As a surgeon aboard the HMS Sulphur, Collie accompanied Lieutenant-Governor James Stirling to Western Australia’s fledgling Swan River Colony in 1829. With the assistance of his Aboriginal guide, Collie’s expeditions across the state’s southwest yielded many botanical, geographical and meteorological discoveries essential to the colony’s expansion and development over subsequent decades. Containing maps and archival images, Alexander Collie also provides new insights into the mind of an innately inquisitive nineteenth-century world traveller and humanist, who sought to bridge the divide between European and Indigenous communities.

Scottish born surgeon in the Royal Navy. Surgeon on board H.M.S. Blossom, 1825-1828 which visited the Pacific and Americas including Arctic regions. Subsequent appointment in HMS Sulpher - part of convoy to found new colony of Western Australia. Lived in Perth and Albany 1829-1835. In Albany, made particular friends with Noongar man, Mokare (c.1800-1831) who became a cultural interpreter for Collie. On Collie's death, he was buried, at his request, beside Mokare.

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iographical Summary by Australian Dictionary of Biography

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