George Mealmaker

George Mealmaker (10 February 1768 – 30 March 1808) was a Scottish radical organiser and writer, born in Dundee, Scotland.

In 1793 Mealmaker wrote Dundee Address to the Friends of Liberty in which he criticised the British government, for which Palmer was arrested as being the writer.

Tried at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh by David Rae, Lord Eskgrove on 10/11 January 1798 for sedition and found guilty, he was transported for 14 years to Australia.

[2] Mealmaker's skills were needed in the colony, and he was put in charge of a weaving factory in Parramatta by Governor King.

The next Governor, William Bligh, did not place the same value on developing weaving, a fire partly destroyed the factory in 1807, and Mealmaker died destitute in 1808, of alcoholic suffocation.