• Title
  Royal warrant for the removal of male convicts under Sentence of Transportation, dated 18 May 1824, signed by King George IV
• Call number
  MLMSS 9915
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  18 May 1824
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  1005895
• Physical Description
  0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Penal transportation to Australia peaked in the 1830s and dropped off significantly in the following decade. The last convict ship arrived in Western Australia on 10 January 1868.
  Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 162,000 convicts were transported to the various Australian penal colonies by the British government.
  
  George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover following the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820, until his own death ten years later.
  
  References:
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  Royal warrant ordering transportation of 66 male convicts signed by King George IV, 18th May 1824. The names of 66 male convicts are listed along the left margin, organised by the courts where they were tried, Nottingham, Lancaster, the Old Bailey and York.
  
  Nottingham:
  George Henry Fowler (Minerva, July 1824),
  Henry Green (Lady East, November 1824),
  John Cooper (Mangles, July 1824),
  William Bonnington (Minerva, July 1824),
  William Markham (Medina, April 1825),
  Daniel Boswell (Minerva, July 1824),
  William Hayes (Minerva, July 1824),
  Benjamin Preston,
  John Witherbed
  Richard Bosnell (Minerva, July 1824).
  
  The Lancaster:
  John Atkinson (Minerva, July 1824),
  John Walmsley (Minerva, July 1824),
  John Arnold,
  William Walker (Medway, July 1825),
  William Smart (Minerva, July 1824),
  Robert Clegg (Medina, April 1825),
  Joseph Ramsbottom (Minerva, July 1824),
  George Partington (Medina, April 1825),
  George Jones (Lady East, November 1824),
  John Hordern (Sir Charles Forbes, November 1824),
  George Griffiths (Lady East, November 1824),
  Richard Marsden (Lady Nugent, December 1834),
  James Timperley,
  George Thompson (Sir Charles Forbes, November 1824),
  John Child,
  Paul Hesketh,
  John Hatton (England, March 1832,
  James Buckley (Minerva, July 1824),
  Peter Williamson (Sir Charles Forbes, November 1824),
  John Smith (William Metcalf, May 1834),
  Samuel Thornton (Medina, April 1825),
  W.H. Topping (Sir Charles Forbes, November 1824),
  John Moorby (Elphinstone, January 1836),
  William Thornton,
  Thomas Lynett,
  John McFarlane (Medway, July 1825),
  Jos. H Irving (Manlius, April 1827),
  John Johnston,
  William Garguin, and
  Peter Cunningham (Lady Nugent, July 1836).
  
  Old Bailey:
  F.H. Germaine (Triton, August 1842),
  John Bass (Marquis of Huntley May 1826),
  John Hutchins (Medina, April 1825),
  Richard Stagg (Hooghley, July 1834; or Bengal Merchant, August 1836),
  William Sykes (Minerva, 08 July 1824),
  Samuel Briggs (sentenced to death 1824, not transported),
  Joseph Thompson (Lady East, November 1824),
  William Thompson (Woodman, December 1825),
  James Thompson (Norfolk, May 1829),
  John A. Henley (Sir Charles Forbes, 23 November 1824),
  John Willis (Sir Charles Forbes, November 1824),
  Samuel Moore, John Gibson,
  Edward Salt (Medway, 28 July 1825),
  Peter Ryan (Minerva, July 1824),
  William Ludlow (Lady East November 1824),
  Thomas Oakes,
  John Kealer (Sir Charles Forbes, 23 November 1824),
  Edward Brimmell (Minerva, July 1824),
  William Clatterback, John Wales (Minerva, July 1824),
  James Whitby (Minerva, July 1824),
  Joseph Bolton (England, June 1835,
  William Fairchild (Guildford, March 1827),
  Edmund Burton (Lady East, November 1824).
  
  The York:
  Thomas Hunley Taylor,
  Als Thomas Hunley.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright.
  Research & study copies allowed: Author has been deceased for more than 50 years
• Description source
  
  Title of warrant on verso.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed at head "George R".
  Paper watermarked "Weatherley 1823".
• Creator/Author/Artist
  George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
  
• Subject
  Transportation of convicts--Australia.
  convicts
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8979557

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