of the Rum Corps officers through competition, and to lower the price of commodities. On 11 May 1799, he appointed Wentworth Assistant Surgeon at Parramatta, in charge of the hospital there, replacing James Mileham, who was later court martialled for refusing to attend the settlers, free people, and others. D’Arcy Wentworth took up duty at Parramatta Hospital, ‘’two long sheds, built in the form of a tent, and thatched…capable of holding two hundred patients.’’ It was large and clean with a large vegetable garden attached to it. A week later, on 16 May 1799, Governor Hunter granted him a fourteen year lease over six acres and twenty roods at Parramatta, on a knoll overlooking the river. Wentworth planted a dozen young Norfolk Island pines along the ridge line, and built a comfortable two storey house, that he named Wentworth Woodhouse. John Price, surgeon on the Minerva, visited him there, he described it as charmingly situated and, as Milton says, "Bosom'd high in tufted trees". Governor Philip Gidley King, RN, 28 September 1800 to 12 August 1806 Wentworth had been friendly with Philip Gidley King on Norfolk Island. On 15 April 1800, King returned to Sydney from London with a dormant commission, to act as governor in the case of the death or during the absence of Captain John Hunter. During Governor Hunter’s final five months in the Colony, Wentworth provided friendship, assistance and undivided loyalty. His support rankled King. Wentworth had been friendly with Philip Gidley King on Norfolk Island, but when King took over as governor, he curtailed D’Arcy Wentworth’s trading, impounded his trading stock and sent him back to Norfolk Island. John Grant, an emancipist, commented, Governor King hates Hunter’s friends. Captain William Bligh, RN, 13 August 1806 to 26 January 1808 Captain William Bligh, who succeeded King, had D’Arcy Wentworth court martialled for disrespect, the result of conflicting instructions given by the Governor. As a consequence of Bligh’s belligerence, Wentworth supported Major George Johnston and John Macarthur in the Rum Rebellion on 26 January 1808, that overthrew the Governor and placed him under house arrest. Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, CB, 1 January 1810 to 1 December 1821 Lachlan Macquarie came ashore in Sydney on 1 January 1810. On 7 January he issued a Government and General Order declaring all official appointments made since Bligh’s arrest null and void. On 20 February 1810, he ordered that D’Arcy Wentworth remain