Arthur Phillip

Dangar Island, Hawkesbury River

Dangar Island, on the Hawkesbury River, south of Gosford and surrounded by Ku-ring-gai National Park ... continue

Richmond

Located west of Sydney on the Hawkesbury River the suburb of Richmond was originally inhabited ... continue

Gordon

First explored by Governor Arthur Phillip in 1788, this suburb on Sydney's north shore ... continue

Rose Bay

Located in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, Rose Bay was named by Governor Arthur Phillip after ... continue

Bennelong

Bennelong (1764?-1813) was one of the most significant Aboriginal figures in the history of ... continue

Balgowlah

As the site first visited by Governor Arthur Phillip when he crossed Sydney harbour in ... continue

First Fleet

In May of 1787, eleven ships set out from England's Portsmouth Harbour bound for ... continue

Thomas Rose

ROSE, THOMAS (1754?-1833), farmer, was born at Blandford, Dorset, England, and baptized on 24 ... continue

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Henry Kable

KABLE, HENRY (1763-1846), businessman, was convicted of burglary at Thetford, Norfolk, England, on 1 February ... continue

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John Palmer

PALMER, JOHN (1760-1833), commissary, was born in England. He entered the navy as a captain ... continue

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Thomas Arndell

ARNDELL, THOMAS (1753-1821), surgeon, magistrate and landholder, was one of seven assistant surgeons who formed ... continue

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Fane Edge

EDGE, FANE (d.1803), provost-marshal, enlisted in the New South Wales Corps on 6 March ... continue

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Elizabeth Macarthur

Elizabeth Macarthur (1766 - 1850), by unknown artist, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales ... continue

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Henry Edward Dodd

DODD, HENRY EDWARD (d.1791), an experienced farmhand, who arrived with Governor Arthur Phillip as ... continue

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Thomas Laycock

LAYCOCK, THOMAS (1756?-1809), quartermaster, was enrolled as a sergeant in the New South Wales ... continue

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Augustus Theodore Henry Alt

ALT, AUGUSTUS THEODORE HENRY (1731-1815), soldier and surveyor, was born probably in London, the son ... continue

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John Macarthur

John Macarthur (1767 - 1834), by unknown artist, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales ... continue

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Bennelong

Bennelong (1764? - 1813), by unknown artist, 1798?, courtesy of National Library of Australia. nla.pic-an9353128 ... continue

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George Johnston

George Johnston (1764 - 1823), by unknown artist, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales ... continue

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Walter James Jeffery

JEFFERY, WALTER JAMES (1861-1922), journalist and author, was born on 20 August 1861 at Portsmouth ... continue

Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography