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Morisset James Thomas
(1780?—1852)

Military commandant, entered the army as an ensign in the 8Oth Regiment in February 1798. He became a lieutenant in November 1800, saw service in Egypt and India, and in December 1805 purchased a captaincy in the 48th Regiment. He fought in the Peninsular war and was wounded at Albuera. ln 1817 he accom­panied his regiment to New South Wales, and was promoted major in August 1819.

Morisset bitterly resented this arrangement, but the Colonial Office did not confirm Rossi’s customs ap­pointment, so Darling was forced to rein­state him as superintendent of police, and in February 1829 to appoint Morisset com­mandant of Norfolk Island, as originally planned.

Norfolk Island, 1987, James Morisset