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	Governor Arthur Phillip
		Arthur Phillip was born in 1738 in London, the son of Jacob Phillip, a language teacher who came from Frankfurt, and Elizabeth, nee Breach.
		Phillip established the convict colony in Sydney Cove, which he governed in a sensible and humane way, despite conditions which included poor quality food, largely infertile land and a lack of experienced farm labour which led to near-famine.
		Phillip established the convict colony in NSW, which he governed in a sensible and humane way, despite adverse conditions which included poor quality food, largely infertile land and a lack of experienced farm labour which led to near-famine.
	www.hawkesburyhistory.org.au /articles/phillip.html (1660 words)

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		Governor Phillip, who served for some years as a Captain in the Portuguese navy, and is deservedly much honoured by that nation, was not personally unknown to the Viceroy, though known in a way which, in a less liberal mind, might have produced very different dispositions.
		Governor Phillip contrived to make him understand that large shells might conveniently be used for the same purpose, and it is probable that by these hints, added to his own observation, he will be enabled to introduce the art of boiling among his countrymen.
		Governor Phillip having remarked this, pointed out to them that he had himself lost one of his front teeth, which occasioned a general clamour; and it was thought he derived some merit in their opinion from this circumstance.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/1/0/15100/15100-8.txt (16752 words)

	Arthur Phillip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phillip was appointed Governor of New South Wales, the first European colony on the Australian continent, and was the founder of the city of Sydney.
		Arthur Phillip was born in London in 1738, the son of Jacob Phillip, a German-born language teacher, and his English wife, Elizabeth, who had remarried after the death of her previous husband, a Royal Navy captain.
		Phillip was educated at the school of the Greenwich Hospital and at the age of 13 was apprenticed to the merchant navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Phillip (1887 words)

	Arthur Phillip first fleet
		Phillip showed himself to be a good town planner in his original design of Sydney, but unfortunately his plan was never carried out and for a time the town grew in an almost haphazard way.
		Phillip had applied for leave of absence to do urgent private business in England, but was requested to continue in his position until his presence in the colony could be better dispensed with.
		Phillip would not allow his optimism to be quenched, and one of his last acts before leaving was the giving of what government live stock could be spared to the settlers.
	www.australiaexplorers.com /arthurphillip.html (2461 words)

	Admiral Arthur Phillip (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Phillip had a very difficult time assembling the fleet which was to make the eight-month sea voyage to Australia.
		Phillip had said before leaving England: "In a new country there will be no slavery and hence no slaves," and he meant what he said.
		Phillip went some way towards winning the trust of the Iora, although the settlers were at all times treated extremely warily.
	www.grandpapencil.com /austral/phillip.htm (1300 words)

	Phillip, Arthur (1738 - 1814) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
		PHILLIP, ARTHUR (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.
		Phillip for his part, more placid and forbearing in temperament, was anxious in the interests of the community as a whole to avoid friction between the civil and military authorities.
		Phillip recognized the dangers of permitting the convicts to obtain spirits and the one occasion, in October 1792, when he allowed it to be sold to the other residents confirmed his fears, for there was widespread drunkenness and disturbance.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A020292b.htm (5499 words)

	Phillip Island Victoria, Australia. The official COMPLETE Website for Accommodation, Lodgings, Bed and Breakfast, ...
		Phillip Island grown and prospered in the 200 years since it was first discovered by Europeans.
		The Little Penguins (fairy penguins) who are native to Phillip Island were soon also bringing in many thousands of tourists to watch their nightly return from the sea.
		To protect and promote the Island's natural wonders and wildlife, the Phillip Island Nature Park was formed in the late 1990's, combining the resources and management of the Penguin Parade, the Koala Conservation Centre, Churchill Island and many other significant eco-tourist and conservation locations.
	www.phillipisland.net.au (632 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography P-Q
		Strictly speaking the governor should have asked Parkes whether he could form a government, but (Sir) James Martin (q.v.) was sent for and Parkes was given the position of colonial secretary.
		In March 1791 James Ruse (q.v.) the first successful farmer in Australia, advised Phillip that he was able to maintain himself on the land he was farming and was granted 30 acres at Parramatta, the first grant of land in Australia.
		Soon after the arrival of Governor Darling in December 1825, inquiries were held into the conduct of the bank and of the naval office, and neither turned out satisfactorily for Piper.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogP-Q.html (21255 words)

	Arthur Phillip: Defender of Co1ônia, Governor of New South Wales (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Phillip's conduct at Colônia was praised by the Viceroy, the Marquis de Lavradio, in a report on the officers of the fleet written on 22 October 1777: "When at Colonia, with only his own Frigate, he made the Spanish respect that Praça as they ought to".
		Phillip's plan was for a squadron of three battleships and a frigate to mount a raid on Buenos Aires and Monte Video, thence to proceed to the coasts of Chile, Peru and Mexico to maraud, and ultimately to cross the Pacific to join Admiral Hughes' East Indian squadron for an attack on Manila.
		Phillip's contribution to the defence of Brazil was always remembered there and both when he called at Rio de Janeiro in August 1787 as commodore of the fleet going to colonize New South Wales and during his return to England in February 1793 he was honoured with extraordinary attention.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~black/amrc/phillip2.htm (4134 words)

	History of NSW From the Records - Volume 1 Governor Phillip 1783-1789 - Phillip's Commission
		The Commission conferred much the same powers on Phillip as those with which the Governors sent out to the colonies and plantations in North America and the West Indies used to be invested in days when "assemblies of freeholders" were unknown.
		Phillip was sent out as the Governor of a Crown colony, and consequently there was practically no limitation of his powers (2).
		It was by Governor Phillip that this mystery was at length unravelled, and the cause of the alarm pronounced to be two French ships which, it was now recollected, were on a voyage of discovery in the southern hemisphere.
	www.freewebs.com /matthewshistory/library/barton_commission1.html (1452 words)

	Early Australian Currency
		When Captain Arthur Phillip, Governor of the new settlement, arrived in Sydney Cove in 1788 with eleven ships and 1,487 people, including 759 convicts, the small colony was virtually penniless.
		From the departure of Captain Phillip at the end of his tenure as governor in 1792, until his official replacement by Captain Hunter in 1795, the infant colony was left in the care of lieutenant-governors - first Francis Grose, then William Paterson.
		Built on the orders of Governor Macquarie between 1810 and 1816, the contract was let out to three entrepreneurs, D'Arcy Wentworth, Alexander Riley and Garnham Blaxcell in exchange for the rights to import 60,000 gallons of rum.
	www.australianstamp.com /Coin-web/aust/earlyaus.htm (6248 words)

	NSW Constitution> Female Governor> E-Files> faqs
		The Governor remains the Queen's representative and exercises her powers, but the appointment and dismissal of the Governor is on the advice of the Premier.
		The first residence of the Governor of New South Wales was a canvas and timber structure brought out on the First Fleet by Governor Phillip in 1788.
		Governor Macquarie (1810-1821) set out to have a new residence designed but the project was not approved by the British Government and only the stables, designed by convict architect Francis Greenway, were erected.
	www.schools.nsw.edu.au /nswconstitution/html/3rd/efiles/faq.html (849 words)

	The History of Australian Exploration by Ernest Favenc
		In December, 1789, Governor Phillip dispatched a party, under Lieutenant Dawes, of the Marines, accompanied by Lieutenant Johnson and Mr.
		In April, 1791, Governor Phillip, attended by a large company, numbering in all twenty-one persons, including two natives, set out on an expedition from Rose Hill to determine the identity, or not, of the Nepean and the Hawkesbury.
		By the Governor's direction they were left unmolested, being but occasionally visited, and their run became known as the Cow Pastures.
	gutenberg.net.au /ausexplore/ausexpl1-01.html (4053 words)

	Whalemen Adventurers - Chapter 2
		Governor King of New South Wales was so very pleased with the progress of the whaling industry that he directed the Commandant at Norfolk Island to send pigs to the Bay of Islands at intervals.
		Governor King, in 1802, said that every ship arriving at Sydney reported great numbers of whales, but there was an objection to whaling on the coast on the part of the masters of the whale-ships owing to the frequent gales.
		Governor Macquarie, writing home on 12 March 1810, added that South Sea whalers would need to be cautioned to be very vigilant and guarded in their intercourse with the New Zealanders as well as with all natives of the South Sea islands.
	www.stormpages.com /published/whalemen/chapter2.html (4159 words)

	Phillip biography
		After Phillip wrote to his superiors in England about this matter, they were replaced except for some who volunteered to stay and join the newly arrived corps.
		Having some of the originals in the corps caused the whole corps now to be less respectful than the original marines and Phillip advised the home office to that effect.
		Between 1792 and 1795, the colony was commanded by the Lieutenant Governor, the commander of the New South Wales Army Corps, Major Grose.
	www.schools.nsw.edu.au /nswconstitution/html/3rd/bgr/gov/phillip.html (401 words)

	Walkabout - Phillip Island
		Consequently, Phillip Island became known, for a time, as Grant's Island, but its present name was later adopted in honour of Governor Phillip.
		The Shire of Phillip Island was declared in 1928 and the first motor race was held on the island that same year.
		Phillip Island has traditionally had a reputation as a place to see koalas in the wild but, in recent years, diseases, road accidents and degradation of the trees has seen their numbers decline.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/VICPhillipIsland.shtml (5524 words)

	WILLIAM DAWES OBSERVATORY
		Nevertheless it was forgotten once when Phillip transferred to the Supply after the fleet left Capetown and ran down, so that Dawes had the job of resetting it to Greenwich time by the lunar distance method.
		Secondly Dawes brought some flour from a convict which was against an order by Governor Phillip intended to prevent rackets in food and rum due to the extreme shortage of food in the colony.
		Phillip did not accept this, but agreed that Dawes could remain in the colony if he apologised for his misdemeanours and undertook not to offend again.
	homepage.mac.com /andjames/Page031b.htm (1896 words)

	Australia - European Settlement
		Phillip's task was to establish such a settlement and make it self-supporting as soon as possible, so that the British government would not have to pay large amounts of money to keep it going.
		In 1790 Pemulwuy killed Governor Phillip's gamekeeper, a man he believed to be responsible for mistreating Aborigines.
		Such an action was uncharacteristic of Phillip, but it showed that he did not believe that Aboriginal people had to be treated according to the same laws and Europeans.
	www.janesoceania.com /australia_europeans/index.htm (2543 words)

	SWAHS: Governor Phillip Hospital
		Today, Governor Phillip is an 80 bed nursing home providing a high level of quality care to their aged and disabled residents.
		Governor Phillip has provided a quality service to our community for over 110 years.
		Governor Phillip Nursing Home offers 24 hour care to those persons requiring high level care and who are approved by an Aged Care Assessment Team for an Aged Care Facility.
	www.wsahs.nsw.gov.au /GovernorPhillip/index.htm (297 words)

	BRIA(16:2) Transportation of Criminals to Australia, Juvenile Justice, Children Who Committ Crimes, Causes of Crime, ...
		But Captain Phillip soon determined that Botany Bay was a poor harbor and the surrounding land was not suited for growing crops.
		Governor Phillip had been given near absolute power to rule his convict colony.
		But somehow over the next few years, Governor Phillip used convict labor to plant crops, establish herds of livestock (mainly sheep), and construct buildings and roads necessary for the colony.
	www.crf-usa.org /bria/bria11_2.html (5496 words)

	The Convict Colony-About to Starve-1
		The ships of the First Fleet had supposedly brought enough food for two years, and Governor Phillip had been assured that more would be on its way before his supplies ran out.
		Governor Phillip knew that he had a problem at the beginning of 1789.
		The measure was so successful that that Phillip could report to Lord Sydney that not a single robbery was reported at this time.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/australian_history_and_culture/113035 (438 words)

	Robert Hughes
		Phillip returned with the news that this place was a paradise compared to Botany Bay: a harbor with many branching arms in which ships could find shelter from any wind, with plenty of fresh water and fertile soil.
		Governor Phillip's instructions as to fls were quite clear: He must "conciliate their affections, enjoining all our subjects to live in amity and kindness with them," and punish anyone who harmed them.
		When these were added to the animals Phillip had bought for the government herd, the colony's total stock came to 2 bulls and 5 cows, 29 sheep, 19 goats, 74 hogs and sows, 18 turkeys, 35 ducks, 35 geese and 209 chickens.
	cstl-cla.semo.edu /zeller/fs84.htm (13999 words)

	Role of Captain Arthur Phillip R.N., after whom Port Phillip was named
		Click here for an account of the visit to Port Phillip by Lieutenant Matthew Flinders RN in April 1802 as part of his circumnavigation of the continent of Australia in HMS 'Investigator'.
		Click here for a reminder, by a Governor of Victoria, of the short-lived first British settlement at Port Phillip, in October 1803, which was led by Lieutenant-Governor David Collins.
		Before the British occupation of the Port Phillip District, which was the name used for the area that later became the Colony, and then the State, of Victoria, the land around Port Phillip is believed to have been occupied, for tens of thousands of years, solely by aboriginal people, of whom there were relatively few.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~phillip/aphillip.htm (481 words)

	First Fleet - Stories
		The marines were all under arms, and received the Governor with flying colours and a band of music.
		After reading his orders and commission "The Governor harangued the convicts, telling them that he had tried them hitherto to see how they were disposed.
		After which the Governor retired to a cold collation under a large tent erected for that purpose to which the general officers only were invited and not the least attention whatever was paid to any other person who came out from England.
	cedir.uow.edu.au /programs/FirstFleet/s_harang.html (619 words)

	Australian History: Early Years
		Between the period of Governor Phillip’s departure until 1821, there were four governors, John Hunter 1795-1800, Phillip King (1800-06), William Bligh (1806-08) and Lachlan Macquarie (1810-21).
		Two governors, John Hunter and Phillip King, did not like this, however they failed to stop the corruption and subsequently replaced.
		As a precaution, Governor Phillip sent the Sirius to the Cape of Good Hope where flour and other food were availbale.
	www.australianhistory.org /early.php (315 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| January 26 \| Australia Day Aussie Australia, Arthur ...
		January 18, Phillip had actually landed at Yarra Bay on Botany Bay’s northern shore, and later there was in fact a plaque commemorating that day, set in the wall of the first Government House, which said that on January 18 “Arthur Phillip...
		Arthur Phillip looked for a good place to land at Botany Bay, but there was insufficient anchorage and fresh water, and the land was rather infertile, so he took the fleet north to Sydney Cove, which he named.
		Arthur Phillip took formal possession of the colony of New South Wales in the name of King George III of the United Kingdom.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/jan26.html (3729 words)

	The Houses of Governors Bligh and Phillip (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Governor Bligh's house is drawn from an article in The Illustrated Sydney News, October 1881 and Governor Phillip's house from an article in The Illustrated Sydney News, July, 1864
		The condemnation and demolition of Sydney dwellings unfit for human habitation is being actively proceeded with, and among the number doomed are the so-called houses in Mary Street, Nos.
		When visited by the Mayor and other city officials it was stated by one of the old tenants of one of these wretched sheds that the building was the first house occupied by Governor Bligh, and that in those days it was known as Government House.
	www.grandpapencil.com /austral/intell13.htm (259 words)

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