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- As the first governor of New South Wales, Phillip struggled with rebellious convicts and troops and—until the middle of 1790—with the threat of famine; but he successfully created a permanent community. Despite his conciliatory policy toward the native Aboriginal peoples, he failed to establish peace between the settlers and the natives.
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Arthur Phillip, British admiral whose convict settlement at Sydney in 1788 was the first permanent European colony on the Australian continent. As the first governor of New South Wales, he struggled with rebellious convicts and troops. Learn more about Phillip’s life and career.
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After leaving school, Phillip spent a short time on a whaling ship in the Arctic, before enlisting in the Royal Navy and staring at the terror of conflict during the Seven Years' War. When the war ended, so did Phillip's time at sea — at least, for a while. The mariner became a farmer. He married and moved to a property near the village of Lyndhurs...
Michael Pembroke, a judge and the author of a recent biography, Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy, believes the British mariner would have been appalled by slavery, and that experience helped shape the future governor. Justice Pembroke explained that when planning for the colony in New South Wales, Phillip declared "there shall be no...
For all the hopes Phillip held for the colony and those who had been sent to New South Wales, there were major challenges, including marines unhappy about the comparative freedom the governor extended to the convicts and the wilful moods of Mother Nature, including severe drought. And there was the major issue of the upheaval and tensions the new a...
There was some debate about his death. Some believed he killed himself, a claim dismissed by others, including Sir Roger Carrick, as gossipy rumour. Phillip was buried in a church in the nearby village of Bathampton. Mr Robertson believed Phillip deserved better recognition and that his remains should have been exhumed and buried in Sydney's Royal ...
- He spied on France for the British. He looked at the build-up, the military build-up, the sea build-up in France. So he was actually acting as a spy out there as well.
- Some believe he died by suicide, but others disagree. I raise the possibility of suicide ... because he wasn't buried in Westminster Abbey or Bath Abbey, and there were a number of question marks about his death.
- Despite governing a penal colony, he hated slavery. He famously wrote, when preparing for the expedition of the First Fleet, that 'there shall be no slavery in a free land'.
- In an earlier life, he was a cattle and agricultural farmer. He learnt all his farming [at Hampsire]. This is poor, infertile land, and he farmed in difficult conditions.
Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a British Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales. Phillip was educated at Greenwich Hospital School from June 1751 until December 1753. He then became an apprentice on the whaling ship Fortune.
Arthur Phillip (1738-1814), admiral and governor, was born on 11 October 1738 in the parish of Allhallows, ward of Bread Street, London, the second child of Jacob Phillip, a language teacher who came to London from Frankfurt, and Elizabeth, née Breach, former wife of Captain Herbert, R.N., a relative of Lord Pembroke.
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Jul 12, 2024 · 3:16pm Jul 12, 2024. Twenty pages of New South Wales' first governor Arthur Phillip's journal detailing our earliest colonial history has been found and submitted to the state library. The commander of the First Fleet arrived in Australia in 1788 and begun writing down his experience and encounters.
But Arthur Phillip’s often-overlooked early life and career shaped his time as governor and deserve far more of our attention. His is a story of ambition and determination against the odds. In an age when wealth, class and patronage ruled, he came from a humble family without land or influence.
