Deputy Commissary General Frederick Drennan 1779-1837

He entered the army as an assistant commissary in 1809, serving in Canada during the American war and was promoted deputy-commissary in 1814. In his next posting posted to Jamaica, he incurred a large deficiency in his accounts, and was shuffled off to NSW.

Drennan attempted to convince Macquarie to change the system of negotiable bills, but fell out with him by claiming that the governor was favouring the new Bank of NSW. He then went further out on a limb over convict policy, the police fund and his manipulations of bills.

He was found to have a deficiency in 1820 of over £6,000: his property was sold, he was arrested, sent home, and dismissed from the Commissariat.