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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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Oct 7, 2024 · 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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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.
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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 ...
With the coming of peace on 25 April 1763 he was retired on half-pay. Save for the months between 13 November 1770 and 8 July 1771, when he served in H.M.S. Egmont, his connexions with the British navy in the next fifteen years were largely nominal.
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Jul 14, 2014 · The rural knowledge Captain Arthur Phillip gained at Lyndhurst in the New Forest was to prove key in the survival of the first settlement in New South Wales.
Arthur Phillip was an important figure in the history of Australia. He was a British naval officer who established the first permanent European colony on the Australian continent.
On 26 January, they made landfall at Sydney Cove, which was deemed a much better location for a settlement and the Union flag was raised. It is apparent from this account that Phillip immediately saw the benefits of a permanent settlement in Australia.
