George Bass, British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia (1771 - 1803), was born at Aswarby, a hamlet near Sleaford Lincolnshire and was educated at Boston Grammar School. He trained in medicine at the hospital at Boston, Lincolnshire, qualifying in 1789, and in 1794 he joined the Royal Navy as a surgeon. He arrived in Sydney in New South Wales on the "Reliance", in which Matthew Flinders had also sailed, in February 1795. Wikipedia
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