First Name:
Captain Phillip Parker
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Appointed Commissioner of A.A. Company in room of the late Col. Dumaresq
First Name:
Captain Phillip Parker
Source:
This errant lady: Jane Franklin's overland journey to Port Philip and Sydney p. 136
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Visited by Lady Franklin. 'Captain King was older in appearance and much older in manner than Lady Franklin expected to find. He was very quiet, but desirous to be kind'
First Name:
Captain Phillip Parker
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In the beginning of 1817, among the numerous voyages of survey and discovery upon which a part of the navy of Great Britain was so honorably and so usefully employed, the unexplored coasts of Australia were not forgotten. An expedition for the purpose of completing the survey of its north and north-west coast was planned, under the joint direction of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the command of which Lieutenant King had the honor of being appointed. The arrangements for providing him with a vessel and crew were made by the latter department. On the 5th February., Lieut. King received his appointment, together with an order for a passage in the hired transport 'Dick', then about the convey H.M. 48th regiment from Cork to New South Wales, where she arrived on the 3rd September, after a passage from Ireland of 22 weeks, including a fortnight spent at Rio de Janeiro. The vessel appropriated to Lieut. King's use was the Mermaid, a cutter of 84 tons burden, built of teak, and not quite twelve months old; her length was 56 feet; breadth of beam 18 feet 6 inches; and she did not, when deep laden, draw more than 9 feet; the total number of her officers and crew was only eighteen, viz Lieut. King, commander; Messrs Frederick Bedwell and John Septimus Roe, master's mates, both of whom had accompanied him from England; Mr. Allan Cunningham, botanical collector; twelve seamen, and two boys. In addition to this establishment, Lieutenant King accepted the proffered services of Boongaree, a Port Jackson native, who had formerly accompanied Captain Flinders in the 'Investigator' and also on a previous occasion in the Norfolk schooner - Royal Naval Biography; Or, Memoirs of the Services of All the Flag-officers by John Marshall
First Name:
Mrs. Phillip Parker
Source:
This errant lady: Jane Franklin's overland journey to Port Philip and Sydney p. 136
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Visited at Port Stephens by Lady Jane Franklin. Desribed by Lady Jane as 'ruddy in cheeks with grey hair. Captain King described as clever looking, serious, yet expression as if sly humour lurking there - a long peculiar nose which was exactly imitated in one lad of 14 or 15 and softened and beautified in a pretty little girl of 5 years old, 'Libby'
First Name:
Phillip Parker
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Commissioner for Australian Agricultural Co.
First Name:
Phillip Parker
Details:
Commissioner for Australian Agricultural Company
First Name:
Phillip Parker
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Commissioner of Australian Agricultural Company. Announcing annual sale of rams at Tilligherry
First Name:
Phillip Parker
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County Commissioner for taking of affidavits and bail etc
First Name:
Phillip Parker
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Resigned from position of Returning Officer for electoral district of Gloucester, Macquarie and Stanley
First Name:
Phillip Parker
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Offering reward for capture of thieves who robbed dray belonging to Australian Agricultural company
First Name:
Phillip Parker
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Appointed country Commissioner for taking of affidavits and bail and examination of witnesses
First Name:
Phillip Parker
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Advertising for stockmen of sober habits for Port Stephens and the muster of cattle at Liverpool Plains for Australian Agricultural company
First Name:
Phillip Parker
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Appointed to be a member of the Legislative Council in lieu of Edward Hamilton, resigned
First Name:
Phillip Parker
Details:
In order to assist you in the care and use of the time keepers and instruments with which their Lordships have directed the Hydrographer of this department to furnish you, and to follow your orders in all other particulars relating to the service, my Lords have directed Messrs Frederick Bedwell and John Septimus Roe, two young gentlemen who have been recommended to them as peculiarly fitted to be of use to you, and for whose appointment you have expressed your wishes, to accompany you and to be under your command................ Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia; performed between the years 1818 and 1822by Philip Parker King - J.W. Croker to Lieut. P.P. King
