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First 5 governors of NSW

  • Captain Arthur Phillips journey to Australia

    Captain Arthur Phillips journey to Australia
    Captain Arthur Phillip started his journey to Australia
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    Captain Arthur Philip

    Captain Arthor Phillip was the first Governor of NSW, Australia. who founded the British penal colony that later became the city of Sydney, Australia. 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 free land.
  • Governor Arthur Phillip

    Governor Arthur Phillip
  • Captain John Hunter

    Captain John Hunter
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    Captain John Hunter

    Was one of 9 children from William Hunter. John Hunter came to Sydney as the second captain of the Sirius. An accomplished officer Hunter stayed for four years during which he surveyed Port Jackson, Norfolk Island, The bays and the river around Australia.
  • Captain Phillip Gidley King

    Captain Phillip Gidley King
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    Captain Philip Gidley King

    He died 2 years after he finished working as Governor. Captain Philip Gidley King was the third Governor of NSW and did much to civilize to young Colony in face of Great Obstacles.
  • Captain William Bligh

    Captain William Bligh
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    Captain William Bligh

    William Bligh was an outstanding sailor, an accomplished navigator and a cartographer. But because of an uncompromising attitude, bad temper and tyrannical leadership style, his is most often remembered as the captain of Bounty when his crew mutinied, and as the failed Governor of NSW who was overthrown by the military.
  • Colonel Lachlan Macquarie

    Colonel Lachlan Macquarie
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    Colonel Lachlan Macquarie

    Lachlan Macquarie was known as 'The Father Of Australia'. Colonel Lachlan Macquarie was sworn in as the fifth Governor of NSW and its dependencies on the 1 January 1810. He promptly annulled all laws and appointments made in the Wake of a military coup that had deposed his processor, governor William Bligh in 1808