books.google.co.uk - John West (1809-1873) was an English-born minister who received a Colonial Missionary Society post in Tasmania in 1838. West became an outspoken opponent of the ongoing government policy of transporting convicts from Britain to Tasmania. Around 1847 a wealthy supporter approached West to write the colony's...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_History_of_Tasmania.html?id=0rYR7-mmyTcC&q=parish&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe History of Tasmania
