Hello and welcome to Season 9, Episode 7 of Bad Gaze, a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history.

My name is Ben Miller. I am a writer and historian, and I'm currently at work on the first biography of the fashion designer Rudy Gernrick.

And my name's Hulemi. I'm a writer and author. And last week we talked about Tracy Wiginton, who was a very troubled woman who committed murder in Australia in the early 1990s in the very homophobic state of Queensland and was turned into a kind of lesbian vampire folk demon by a blood-hungry media.

Who are we talking about this week, Hugh?

Then you know what they say about Australians. They're like buses. You weigh eight seasons for one

and then two come along at once. Today we're talking about another Australian, Andrew George Scott,

an adopted Australian. It just takes us, it just took them eight seasons to get here because

the flight was so long. They had to change in Singapore or Dubai or

somewhere and you know how long it takes Australians to get from Australia to. Yeah. And then when

they come, they always stay for eight weeks. So I guess we'll have like now two seasons of

entirely Australians before they spend another eight seasons getting home. We've been warming up for

them. So today is always warming up for them. So today's...

I'm always warming up for Australians here.

Today's subject is an adopted Australian named Andrew George Scott, who's best remembered to history by his enigmatic title, Captain Moonlight.

And the story of his short, but very eventful life is a very fascinating tale of personal conscience, colonialism and criminality.

So let's start as always at the beginning.

Scott was born in 1842 in County Down in Ireland to Thomas and Bessie Scott.

There were a Protestant couple of middling sorts.

Thomas was from County Down.

Bessie was from County Wexford.. Thomas was from County Down. Bessie was from County

Wexford. And Thomas was educated and prosperous. He'd got a bachelor's from Trinity College in Dublin

and he inherited a small estate from his father and he was also respected locally. He managed

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