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We thank the State Library of New South Wales Bricks from Arthur for permission to use the following images Phillip's Lyndhurst used in this leaflet. home are used in a Front Page: Capt. Arthur Phillip RN memorial wall and Francis Wheatley, 1786 ML 124 for the base of his Page 3: Founding of Australia. bronze bust in Algernon Talmage RA 1937. Sydney. ML 1222 His achievements are recorded there Portsmouth as a ‘Feat without parallel in history Canary Islands at that time.’ Cape Verde Islands Rio De Janeiro Cape Town Sydney The Route of the First Fleet May 1787 - January 1788 Capt. Arthur Phillip RN © 2014 Lyndhurst Parish Council Designed and Printed by TLC-Online Southampton: 023 8024 3044 Captains Arthur Phillip and James Cook are both him overcome the many challenges he faced. Captain Arthur Phillip RN celebrated in Australia as national heroes. The grape vines Phillip bought when restocking Australia Day on 26th January marks the at Cape Town began the Australian wine (1738 –1814) anniversary of Captain Phillip’s arrival in Sydney industry. Cove in 1788. Other local connections are with Richard Arthur Phillip, First Governor of New South Johnson, a Boldre curate, who also sailed with Wales and founder of Sydney, lived in Lyndhurst the First Fleet, and George Rose, owner of after his marriage to Margaret Denison, a rich Cuffnells Park in Lyndhurst. Rose Hill (now widow, in 1763. Arthur Phillip was an Overseer Parramatta) was named as a tribute to George of the Poor from 1766 to 1768. Rose, Senior Secretary to the Treasury and later Treasurer of the Navy. Arthur Phillip Phillip established a sound stable colony despite moved to Lyndhurst serious hardship and illness. He returned to in 1763 and lived at England in 1792 suffering from poor health. By Glasshayes (now 1798 Phillip was living at Lymington and in Lyndhurst Park Hotel) command of the Hampshire, and later National, where a memorial Sea Fencibles, who protected the coastal waters plaque has been The Founding of Australia, Sydney Cove Jan. 26th 1788 from the French, and organised the Press erected. In 1786 Phillip became Captain Commodore of Gangs. He retired to Bath where he gained He farmed at the First Fleet. He sailed from the Solent on 13th promotion to Admiral of the Blue shortly before Vernalls Farm, in Gosport Lane. May 1787 with 11 ships and 1530 men and his death in 1814. women, including 736 convicts. His orders were Statue of Arthur Phillip, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney to set up an agricultural colony for convicts at Botany Bay in New South Wales. Botany Bay’s poor soil, lack of fresh water and exposed anchorage made it unsuitable so Phillip decided on nearby Port Jackson, later named Sydney Cove in honour of Lord Sydney. At first there were limited provisions and difficult growing conditions in the new colony. The experience Phillip gained from farming at Vernalls in Lyndhurst and the expertise of his Lyndhurst Park Hotel farm worker, Henry Edward Dodd, helped.