FLINDERS. 



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He was industrious and conscientious. He was just; he opposed in naval 

 court the sentencing of a man whom he believed to be wronged. He was haughty, 

 and refused his captor's invitation to dinner a refusal that brought him 7 years 

 of internment. He was dogged; else he could never have succeeded with small or 

 rotten ships and where the elements were arrayed against him. 



Like most hyperkinetics (of which he was a mild representative), he was, 

 when relaxed, a lively companion, a warm friend, and an entertaining conversa- 

 tionalist. He attracted men to him. He was generous to others, including other 

 geographical discoverers on his own ground. 



He was scholarly. He wrote a theory of tides, a paper on the magnetism 

 of the globe, and a treatise on spherical trigonometry. Flinders was careful, 

 conscientious, and accurate. "The excellence of his charts was such that to this 

 day the Admiralty charts for those portions of the Australian coast where he did 

 his original work bear upon them" his name. 



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FAMILY HISTORY OF MATTHEW FLINDERS. 



I 1 (F F), John Flinders (born 1737), a surgeon. 



II 1 (consort's F), Chappell, a shipmaster. Fraternity 



of F: II 3, John Flinders (1766-1793), a lieutenant in the Royal 

 Navy. II 4 (F), Matthew Flinders, a surgeon of excellent reputa- 

 tion who read a clinical paper before the Medical Society of 

 London. II 5 (M), Susannah Ward (1752-1783). 



III 1 (consort), Ann Chappell (1770-1852). Ill 2 (Pro- 

 positus) MATTHEW FLINDERS. Fraternity of Propositus: III 3, 

 Samuel Ward Flinders (1782-1842), a lieutenant in the Royal 

 Navy. 



Child of Propositus: IV 1, Ann Flinders. IV 2, William Petrie. 



Child of child of Propositus: V 1, William Matthew Flinders 

 Petrie (born 1863), the leading British Egyptologist and Professor 

 of Egyptology in the University College, London. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



SCOTT, E. 1914. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R. N. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 

 xviii + 492 pp. 



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