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Facts

Born October 11, 1738 • London • England
Died August 31, 1814 (aged 75) • Bath • England
Title / Office governor (1788-1792), New South Wales
Founder New South Wales
Role In colonization of Australia

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Arthur Phillip
raising of the British flag at the founding of the convict settlement of Sydney
port phillip bay
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Northcote, Henry Stafford Northcote, Baron
Henry Stafford Northcote, Baron Northcote
British diplomat and statesman
James Edward Oglethorpe
James Edward Oglethorpe
British military officer
Earl Amherst, detail of an oil painting after A. Devis; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Pitt Amherst, lst Earl Amherst
British diplomat
Frederick Lugard
Frederick Lugard
British colonial administrator
Frank Holl: Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
British politician and social reformer
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet.
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet
British statesman
Earl of Ellenborough, detail of an oil painting by F.R. Say, c. 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Edward Law, earl of Ellenborough
British governor of India
William Legge, 2nd earl of Dartmouth
British statesman
Carnarvon, Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th earl of
Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th earl of Carnarvon
British statesman
L.S. Amery
British politician
Thomas Edward Bowdich, engraving after a painting by William Derby.
Thomas Edward Bowdich
British science writer
Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey
British statesman
Robert Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
prime minister of United Kingdom
William Bligh
William Bligh
English admiral
Sir Kenneth Blackburne
British colonial administrator
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders
British navigator
Sir Philip Francis, detail of an oil painting by J. Lonsdale; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Philip Francis
British politician
George Bass
British explorer
Dalhousie, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Watson-Gordon, 1847; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie
governor-general of India
Turnbull, Malcolm
Malcolm Turnbull
prime minister of Australia

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