Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

Arthur Phillip was born in 1738, the son of Jacob Phillip, a Frankfurt-born language teacher, and his English wife, Elizabeth Breach.

Like his predecessor, Lord Germain, he turned for advice to Arthur Phillip.

Arthur Phillip

Further, soon after Lord Sydney appointed him governor of New South Wales Arthur Phillip drew up a detailed memorandum of his plans for the proposed new colony.

Statue of Arthur Phillip in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

The memorial to the first governor of New South Wales, Arthur Phillip, is on the right hand wall

In 2007, Geoffrey Robertson QC alleged that Phillip's remains are no longer in St Nicholas Church, Bathampton and have been lost: "... Captain Arthur Phillip is not where the ledger stone says he is: it may be that he is buried somewhere outside, it may simply be that he is simply lost.

Captain Arthur Phillip assumed office as Governor of New South Wales on 7 February 1788, when the Colony of New South Wales, the first British settlement in Australia, was formally founded.

* 1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson ( Sydney Harbour ) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.

Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson.

Commemorating the landing of the First Fleet in Botany Bay, the Sydney Cove medallion was made by Josiah Wedgwood after he was given a sample of clay from Sydney Cove by Sir Joseph Banks, who had received the sample from Governor Arthur Phillip.

* 1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts ( the " First Fleet ") to establish a penal colony in Australia.

* 1738 – Arthur Phillip, Governor of New South Wales ( d. 1814 )

* January 24 – The La Perouse expedition in the Astrolabe and Boussole arrives off Botany Bay just as Captain Arthur Phillip is attempting to move his colony from there to Sydney Cove in Port Jackson.

* January 26 – Australia Day: Eleven ships of the First Fleet from Botany Bay, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, land at Sydney Cove ( which will become Sydney ), Australia, where he determines to establish the British prison colony of New South Wales, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.

* May 13 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with 11 ships packed with 1, 000 convicts and their jailers to establish a penal colony in Australia.

* August 31 – Arthur Phillip, British admiral and first governor of New South Wales ( b. 1738 )

* October 11 – Arthur Phillip, British admiral and Governor of New South Wales ( d. 1814 )

* June 4 – Walter Ralegh sends Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the Outer Banks of Virginia ( now North Carolina ), with a view to establishing an English colony ; they locate Roanoke Island.

The first governor, Arthur Phillip, was instructed explicitly to establish friendship and good relations with the Aborigines and interactions between the early newcomers and the ancient landowners varied considerably throughout the colonial period — from the mutual curiosity displayed by the early interlocutors Bennelong and Bungaree of Sydney, to the outright hostility of Pemulwuy and Windradyne of the Sydney region, and Yagan around Perth.

The three earliest governors of the colony, Arthur Phillip, John Hunter, and Philip Gidley King, were continually in correspondence with him.

The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded European settlement in Australia.

Thus, Arthur C. Clarke is often quoted as being the inventor of the communications satellite.

69 ( 1912 ), based on Arthur O ' Shaughnessy's Ode, at the line " We fashion an empire's glory ", where he also quoted the opening phrase of " Rule, Britannia!

In the letter, LCDR Jackson quoted RADM Arthur W. Radford saying of Butch O ' Hare that he " never saw one individual so universally liked.

*" A braver man than Arthur Griffith, I never met "-The Earl of Birkenhead, British negotiator in the Treaty, quoted from Tim Pat Coogan's Michael Collins.

* The sentence is quoted by David Lodge in his 2001 novel, Thinks ..., in the context of a debate between the fictional characters of Arthur Messenger ( a cognitive scientist ) and Helen Reed ( a novelist ).

" always elicited giggles from the studio audience ( and was frequently quoted in animated cartoons such as 1945's Draftee Daffy ); and Floyd Munson ( Arthur Q. Bryan ), the rough-around-the-edges neighborhood barber.

Additionally, Arthur Fonseca, a Berkeley / East Bay Food Not Bombs activist, was quoted in the same article as saying " Rich people are welcome here as much as poor people, but if rich people want to change the park to make poor people feel uncomfortable, that's obviously a problem.

One Gwenc ' hlan or Guinclaff around 1450 wrote a " chant royal ", or " Dialogue between King Arthur and Gwenc ' hlan ", quoted by Dom Le Pelletier and Gregory of Rostrenen.

For their refusal to make a news release denouncing those teachers who exceeded the placement quota for their profession and who were about to lose their current jobs, Arthur Li was quoted by Luk to have said on 26 / 27 June 2004, " I'll remember this.

Among his numerous works may be mentioned Illustrated Natural History ( 1853 ), Animal Traits and Characteristics ( 1860 ), Common Objects of the Sea Shore ( 1857 ), The Uncivilized Races, or Natural History of Man ( 1870 ), Out of Doors ( 1874 ) ( a book that was quoted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes story " The Adventure of the Lion's Mane "), Field Naturalist's Handbook ( with T. Wood ) ( 1879 – 80 ), books on gymnastics, sport, etc., and an edition of White's Selborne.

Salman Rushdie and Arthur Miller had been favored to receive the Prize, but a committee member was later quoted as saying that they would have been " too predictable, too popular.

He once provided entomological advice to writer John Steinbeck and found himself quoted on the subject of killer bees in the opening of Arthur Herzog's best-selling novel " The Swarm ".

Already respected enough to serve on a competition committee regarding the adoption of goal nets and to be quoted as the preeminent authority on forward play by his linemate Arthur Farrell in his 1899 book, Trihey continued his high level of play in 1900, once again leading the Shamrocks to an easy league championship, while repeating his league scoring championship with 17 goals.

* The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler quoted in The Next World Order by Ahmad Thomson

Reade is quoted in one of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventures, The Sign of the Four: (...) " Winwood Reade is good upon the subject ," said Holmes.

Kate Simon's Bronx Primitive: Portraits of a Childhood is directly autobiographical, a warm account of a Polish-Jewish girl in an immigrant family growing up before World War II, and living near Arthur Avenue and Tremont Avenue.

However, the Arthur in films and television is clearly depicted as living during a much later period – the costumes used in such dramatizations resemble those of people living in the 12th century more than they do those used during the 5th or 6th.

Gildas ' 6th-century polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae ( On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain ), written within living memory of Mount Badon, mentions the battle but does not mention Arthur.

" The code of chivalry so important in later romance figures in as well, as Geoffrey says Arthur established " such a code of courtliness in his household that he inspired peoples living far away to imitate him.

After university, living in London and Cambridge, Hughes went on to have many varied jobs including working as a rose gardener, a night watchman and a reader for the British film company J. Arthur Rank.

This meant that he had been living in sin with Catherine of Aragon all these years, though Catherine hotly contested this and refused to concede that her marriage to Arthur had been consummated.

It was the pianist Arthur Rubinstein, then living in Buenos Aires, who had advised him to study with Ginastera and delving into scores of Stravinsky, Bartók, Ravel, and others, Piazzolla rose early each morning to hear the Teatro Colón orchestra rehearse while continuing a gruelling performing schedule in the tango clubs at night.

Henry VII also sent his heir Prince Arthur to Ludlow, where he was joined briefly by his wife Catherine of Aragon later to become wife to Henry VIII, who was living in Castle Lodge, Ludlow at the time.

Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as " the greatest living actress of our times ," and she remains the only British actress ever to win the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards.

The Death of Cleopatra by Reginald Arthur ( 1892 ) Her plan fails: rather than rushing back in remorse to see the " dead " Cleopatra, Antony decides that his own life is no longer worth living.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who appeared in the prologue to the film based on his novel of the same name, reportedly showed a reel of O ' Brien's animation from the film to his friends, claiming it was real footage of living dinosaurs, to try to convince them that his story was based on fact.

Creiddylad, daughter of Lludd Silver Hand, is a lady living at the court of King Arthur.

In 1773, a North Carolina Governor Arthur Dobbs proclamation related to a report from his agent, Col. Rutherford, head of a Bladen County militia, that a " mixed crew " of 50 families were living along Drowning Creek.

In 1754, North Carolina Governor Arthur Dobbs received a report from his agent, Col. Rutherford, the head of a Bladen County militia, that a " mixed crew " of 50 families were living along Drowning Creek.

His daughter, Louisa St. Clair Robb, and her six children were living with Arthur and Phoebe as were Elizabeth St. Clair Lawrence ( a widow ) and her children.

While living in Harrisburg, Lewis also published the popular poem, " St. Clair's Defeat ," which described the defeat of Arthur St. Clair by the tribes of the Western Confederacy during the Battle of the Wabash.

TVA chairman Arthur Morgan envisioned Norris as a model of cooperative, egalitarian living.

A stone head of Arthur Lett-Haines dates from 1933, when Skeaping was living in the artists ' colony at the house of Sir Cedric Morris after the breakup of his marriage to Barbara Hepworth.

According to Le Morte D ' Arthur, after Lancelot's death, the eight knights of his kindred that had joined him in living a life of penitence return to France, take care of the affairs of their lands, then, acting on Lancelot's request of them, go to the Holy Land and fight against the Turks.

In the late 19th and early 20th century a small number of American and British artists made their living illustrating children's books, like Rose O ' Neill, Arthur Rackham, Cicely Mary Barker, Willy Pogany, Edmund Dulac, W. Heath Robinson, Howard Pyle, or Charles Robinson.

By early 1919 the living male-line British descendants of Victoria subject to British rule were King George V, his five sons, his daughter Princess Mary, his unmarried sister Princess Victoria, his uncle Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, his cousin Prince Arthur of Connaught, his cousin once removed Prince Alastair of Connaught, and his unmarried cousin Princess Patricia of Connaught.

His annulment from Catherine and his marriage to Anne were predicated on his claim that he and Catherine had produced no living son because he had disobeyed a Scriptural injunction and married his brother's widow – which Catherine would have been, had Arthur and she consummated their marriage.