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William Ross was deported to Australia from Britain as a convict. He arrived in Moreton Bay in November 1826, six months after Captain Patrick Logan had assumed control of the 40th Regiment. In the novel The Fell Tyrant (1836), Ross related and exaggerated the cruelty and oppression of Logan's tenure, and of the entire transportation system.
