George Shaw Rutherford was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on convict ships to Australia -  Prince of Orange 1821   Shipley 1822 Marquis of Hastings 1826  Eliza 1827  Lord Melville 1829  Royal Admiral 1830 and China 1846 (to Norfolk Island) In 1831, he gave evidence before a Select Committee which was appointed to inquire into the best mode of giving efficiency to Secondary Punishments and to report their Observations to the House. Select here to read the evidence he gave He was granted 2650 acres by Governor Darling on 24 June 1837. This land had been granted to John Cramer Owen in 1822, however John Owen returned to England without taking up the grant. John Owen's brother Henry Dixon Owen was granted 1,100 acres adjoining this estate in 1822. George Rutherford had returned to England by 1841. He died in London in 1866