Who was the Aboriginal man taken to England by Captain Arthur Phillip?

Answer 1

Captain Arthur Phillip took the Aborigine Bennelong to England. Bennelong was a senior man of the Eora, a Koori, people of the Port Jackson area, when the First Fleet arrived in Australia, in 1788. He was captured on 25 November 1789, for the purpose of being used as a mediary between the white and Aboriginal cultures. Captain Arthur Phillip, wanted to learn about the language and customs of the indigenous people. Bennelong willingly liaised between the cultures, and adopted European dress and other ways. Bennelong travelled with Phillip to England in 1792, and returned to Australia in 1795. However, he was ostracised from his own people, the Aborigines, when he found it too difficult to integrate into the European culture, and tried to return to his own people. He died on 3 January 1813.

Answer 2

This was the Aborigine Bennelong, a senior tribesman of the Koori people in the Eora tribe, the original inhabitants of the Port Jackson area. His "full name" was Woollarawarre Bennelong. Bennelong travelled to England with Captain Arthur Phillip in 1792, and returned to Australia in 1795.