Watkin Tench, baronet

(1758-1833)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Tench, Watkin, 1759?-1833 DNB: Tench, Watkin (bap. 1758, d. 1833), marine officer and author LBT ID: WaTench1833 VIAF ID: 56716929 LOC ID: n83126845	B/BAP: 1758-11-10 DIED: 1833-05-07
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He served in the American War of Independence and was commandant of the Plymouth division of Royal Marines (1819-27). He wrote A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay (1789).
REFERENCES TO Watkin Tench, baronet: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 39