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Name	Thomas Braidwood Wilson
Born	1792 Scotland
Died	11 November, 1843 (aged ~ 51) Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia
Cultural Heritage	Scottish Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Occupation or Descriptor *	ship's surgeon (1815-1831) New South Wales, Australia defence forces personnel (British) (1822-1826) Tasmania, Australia grazier (unspecified) (1822-1826) Tasmania, Australia defence forces personnel (British) (1826-1843) New South Wales, Australia grazier (unspecified) (1826-1843) New South Wales, Australia explorer (1829-1831) Western Australia, Australia ship's surgeon (1831-1831) Tasmania, Australia autobiographer/memoirist (1835-1835) New South Wales, Australia Indigenous culture recorder (1835-1835) New South Wales, Australia
Legacies *	Braidwood (NSW) (eponym) Wilson's Inlet (WA) (eponym)

* Dates are approximate

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