Watkin Tench - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Eleanor Dark, The Timeless Land (1941 novel)
  • Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant (Novel) as Captain Silk.
  • Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good (1988 play). Tench is portrayed as an unsympathetic character who does not believe in any hope of redemption or rehabilitation for any of the transported English convicts of the First Fleet.

Tench Reserve in Penrith, New South Wales is named after him.

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