Legends, George Taplin friend of the Ngarrindjeri Taplin, George (1831–1879) was born on 24 August 1831 at Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England. Committed Christian and Congregationalist, from the age of 15 he had desired to become an overseas missionary. He arrived in Adelaide in the Anna Maria on 12 October 1849 and worked as a labourer and as a lawyer’s…