Arthur Phillip

Royal Navy Admiral and colonial administrator (1738–1814)

Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales. Phillip was educated at Greenwich Hospital School from June 1751 until December 1753. He then became an apprentice on the whaling ship Fortune.

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