When was bennelong born
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Bennelong
A portrait of Bennelong c1793 attributed to the artist George Charles Jenner (image courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW - DGB 10)
Bennelong (who also went by the names Wolarwaree, Ogultroyee and Vogeltroya) was from the Wangal people and is regarded as one of the most significant and notable Aboriginal people in the early history of Australia. He became one of the first to be ‘civilised’ into the European way of life, enjoying its ‘benefits’ and living with the settlers.
Bennelong was captured with Colebee in November 1789 as part of Governor Arthur Phillip’s plan to learn the language and customs of the local people in an attempt to aid relations between the two groups. Bennelong, like Arabanoo, soon adopted European dress and ways, and was trained in the English language. He is known to have taught the Sydney Aboriginal language to George Bass. He gave the Aboriginal name Wolawaree to Phillip to locate him in a kinship relationship in order to enable communication of customs and relationship to the land. Bennelong served t
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Bennelong
Indigenous Australian cross-cultural pioneer
For other uses, see Bennelong (disambiguation).
Woollarawarre Bennelong[a] (c. 1764 – 3 January 1813) was a senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal Australian people of the Port Jackson area, at the time of the first British settlement in Australia. Bennelong served as an interlocutor between the Eora and the British, both in the colony of New South Wales and in Great Britain. He was the first Aboriginal man to visit Europe and return.[2]
In 1789, he was abducted on the authority of GovernorArthur Phillip, who hoped to use Bennelong to establish contact with the native people. Bennelong escaped after several months. A tenuous relationship subsequently developed between Bennelong and the colonists with various attacks and reconciliations occurring throughout 1790. He came to be a significant ambassador of the Eora.
Bennelong was taken to Great Britain in 1792 and he resided in London for three years. Eventually his health deteriorated and in February 1795 he was returned to Australia. Bennelong soon
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People Australia
Bennelong (c.1764-1813), mediator, informant and cultural broker, was born into the Wangal clan on the south bank of the Parramatta River about 1764.[1] Governor Arthur Phillip had orders from King George III to live in ‘amity and kindness’ with the Indigenous people of the Sydney region.[2] After the death of Arabanoo, Phillip ordered Lieutenant William Bradley to capture ‘a Man or two’.[3] Bennelong and the Gadigal leader Colebee were abducted at Kayeemy (Manly Cove) on 25 November 1789. Colebee soon escaped but Bennelong resigned himself to his captivity.
Bennelong was an initiated man, about 170 centimetres (five feet six inches) tall, who had survived smallpox. Captain Watkin Tench said he was about 26 years old, ‘of good stature, and stoutly made, with a bold intrepid countenance, which bespoke defiance and revenge … He acquired knowledge both of our manners and language, faster than his predecessor [Arabanoo] had done.’[4] Just ten weeks after Bennelong’s capture, on 13 February 1790, Phillip was able to report to Lord Sydney at the Home Office in London
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