The Penal Colony - The A Team

- Governors - Officers under the Crown -

Index - The Penal Colony A Team - Australian History

Background

British Empire - English Colonialism - The Americas - "informal empire" - Asia - Pax Britannica - New Imperialism - white-settler colonies - First World War - Decolonization -1066 - 1607
1678 - Whig Movement - British politics, Whigs, Liberal Democrats, great noble houses, moneyed interest, religious dissent, Tories, Jacobitism, Exclusion Bill Crisis,
1770 - Australian Freemasonry - Sir Joseph Banks - Captain Cook - Flinders - merino sheep - 1770 - First Fleet - United Grand Lodge of England
1790 - Wreck of the Sirius - Ralph Clark - Hunter - Governor King - William Bradley

New South Wales Governors

1788 - Phillip, Arthur , Updated, The first Governor of NSW.

1795 - John Hunter,  Second governor New South Wales

1800 - Philip Gidley King, Third Governor of New South Wales

1805 - William Bligh, 4th Governor of New South Wales deposed by the Rum Rebellion

1808 - Rum Rebellion, William Bligh, Rum Corps, John Macarthur, mutiny

1809 - Colonel William Paterson (acting),

1808 - Lachlan Macquarie, 6th Governor of New South Wales

1810 - Major-General Lachlan Macquarie,

1821 - Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane,
1825 - Lieutenant-General Ralph Darling,
1831 - Major-General Sir Richard Bourke,
1838 - Sir George Gipps,
1846 - Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy,
1855 - Sir William Denison,
1861 - John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar,
1868 - Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore,
1872 - Sir Hercules Robinson,
1879 - Lord Augustus Loftus,
1885 - Charles Wynn-Carington, 3rd Baron Carrington,
1891 - Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey,
1893 - Sir Robert Duff,
1895 - Henry Robert Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden,
1899 - William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp,

1902 - Admiral Sir Harry Rawson,
1909 - Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford,
1913 - Sir Gerald Strickland,
1918 - Sir Walter Davidson,
1924 - Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair,
1930 - Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game,
1935 - Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven,
1936 - Admiral Sir David Anderson,
1937 - John de Vere Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst,
1946 - General Sir John Northcott,
1957 - Lieutenant-General Sir Eric Woodward,

1966 - Sir Roden Cutler VC,

1981 - Air Marshal Sir James Rowland,
1989 - Sir David Martin,
1990 - Rear Admiral Peter Sinclair,
1996 - Gordon Samuels,
2001 - Prof. Marie Bashir,

Western Australia Governors

1829, James Stirling - Western Australia, first Governor, British marine officer, Scotland, West Indies, Surrey, Mediterranean,

 Other Officers under the Crown

1788 - John Nicol, Mariner, Second Fleet, Lady Julian, Captain Aitkin, Lieutenant Edgar, Sarah Whitlam

1788 - Collins, David, First Fleet, HMS Sirius, First Judge Advocate of New South Wales, First Lieutenant Governor of Van Dieman’s Land

1788 - Dodd, Henry Edward, First Fleet Farmer, free man, Farm Cove, Governor Phillip, Rose Hill

1788 - Henry Waterhouse, First Fleet, officer, Sirius, Norfolk Island, Port Jackson, Supply, John Hunter, Reliance

1788 - Scott, James, Sergeant of Marines, First Fleet, Prince of Wales, Dixon Library, Sydney,

1788 - John Munday, private marine, 18th (Plymouth) Company, New South Wales, First Fleet, Port Jackson, Captain Shea, Norfolk Island 

1788 - Peter Hibbs, Able Seaman, HMS Sirius, 25 March 1787, Cascade Stream, Phillipsburg, Norfolk Island, Point Hibbs, HMS Porpoise 

1788 - Richard Williams, Borrowdale, 2nd mate, First Fleet, aborigines

1788 - Thomas Lucas, First Fleet, Marine, Lady Juliana, Ann Howard, New South Wales corps, Daedalus, Norfolk Island, Governor Hunter 

1788 - Watkin Tench, Royal Marine Corps, American War of Independence, First Fleet, captain-lieutenant, lieutenant-general

1788 - William Nash, Royal Marine, 58th (Plymouth) Company, 1st Fleeter, Prince of Wales, Port Jackson, Captain Shea, Maria Haynes

1788 - William Broughton, Charlotte, servant to Surgeon John White, storekeeper Parramatta,  Norfolk Island acting deputy commissary 
1976 - Dr George Bass, English Naval Surgeon and Explorer

1802 - Matthew Flinders, Navigator who circumnavigated and named Australia

1802 - John Oxley, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, Naval Officer, Explorer

1813 - Gregory Blaxland, Free Settle, pioneer, explorer, Blue Mountains

1813 - William Charles Wentworth, Convict' son, Explorer, Blue Mountains, Editor, the Australian newspaper, Australian Patriotic Association

1813 - William Lawson, Ensign, New South Wales Corps, explorer, Blue Mountains

1819 - Commissioner Bigge, Inquiry, Convicts, Lachlan Macquarie, Wentworth, Macarthur, Rev. S. Marsden, Exclusivist

1822 - Elizabeth Hawkins  - The diary of first family of white free settlers to cross the Blue Mountains

1827 - Mitchell Sir Thomas L, Surveyor, General, Explorer, New South Wales, Darling River, Lachlan River, Murrumbidgee River, Murray Rivers