David Collins carries colonial law from Sydney to Hobart

David Collins volunteered for the proposed penal colony and became its judge advocate despite having no formal legal training. In New South Wales he combined that office with responsibility for the military court, the colonial secretaryship, and periods as lieutenant governor. He later led an expedition to establish a penal settlement at Sullivan Bay in Port Phillip. Reports from local exploration and his own dissatisfaction with the site led him to seek Governor King's permission to relocate. Collins moved the settlement to the Derwent River in Van Diemen's Land, where it became Hobart, but left no published account of this later work.