Charles Tompson (26 June 1807 – 5 January 1883) was an Australian public servant and it is claimed he was the first published Australian-born poet. Tompson was born in 1806 at Sydney, eldest child of Charles Tompson (c1784–1871), a farmer, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Boggis. Tompson senior had been convicted at Warwick, England, in March 1802, and arrived in Sydney aboard the Coromandel in May 1804. Tompson junior was educated at the Henry Fulton's school at Castlereagh, and entered the New South Wales public service. In 1826 he published Wild Notes, from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel, by Charles Tompson, jun., the first volume of verse by one of the native-born to be published in Australia. Tompson was just 20 years old when his volume was published. Considered as juvenilia it has some m
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