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John Hunter
He was an officer of the Royal Navy, who succeeded Arthur Phillip as the second governor of New South Wales, Australia and served as such from 1795 to 1800. -
Arthur Phillip
He was a Royal Navy officer and the first Governor of New South Wales who founded the British penal colony that later became the city of Sydney, -
William Bligh
He was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. The Mutiny on the Bounty occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; after being set adrift in Bounty's launch by the mutineers, Bligh and his loyal men reached Timor, a journey of 3,618 nautical miles (6,701 km; 4,164 mi). -
Philip Gidley King
He was the third Governor of New South Wales, and did much to civilise the young colony in the face of great obstacles. -
Lachlan Macquarie
Macquarie served as the fifth and last autocratic Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821,[2] and had a leading role in the social, economic and architectural development of the colony. He is considered by historians to have had a crucial influence on the transition of New South Wales from a penal colony to a free settlement and therefore to have played a major role in the shaping of Australian society in the early nineteenth century.
