George Bennett b. 31 January 1804

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
After two previous trips to Australia as a natural historian, George Bennett finally settled in Sydney in 1836 and worked as a medical practitioner. He maintained his interest in natural history however and became intimately involved with the Australian Museum, eventually as its Museum Director and Curator.

Citations

  • Bennett, George (1854), 'Ornithorhynchus paradoxus or Water Mole’, Illustrated Sydney News, 04-01, An abstract from the 1853 Transactions of the Zoological Society.

  • Chisholm, A.H., 'George Bennett’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1851), Sydney Morning Herald, 04-26.

  • Bennett, George (1834), 'Wanderings in New South Wales … being the Journal of a Naturalist’, London, England, UK.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870