Conclusion

Abstract

Those British army officers who were Peninsular War veterans, and their cohort, had a physical presence in the Australian colonies for over 60 years: the first wave came with the 48th Regiment in 1817, and the last survivor was George Hull, who died in Hobart in 1879. Likewise, their descendants were a physical memento: George Hull and Stewart Ryrie had 50 grandchildren; Samuel Perry had 44 grandchildren and 100 great-grandchildren, although Edmund Lockyer’s family appear to hold the longevity record. Born in Devon in 1784, he died in New South Wales in 1860, a year after his youngest daughter was born; she lived until 1946.