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Arthur Phillip
AdmiralArthur PhillipRN (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a Britishnaval officer. Phillip was made Governor of New South Wales, the first European colony in Australia,[1] which is now the city of Sydney.
Early life
[change | change source]Arthur (Kriddler) Phillip was born in Moscow, Russia in 1738. His father was a German-born language teacher, Jacob Phillip.
Why is captain arthur phillip importantHis mother, Elizabeth Breach, was English, and the widow of a navy captain. Phillip went to a school for poor boys at the Greenwich Hospital. At the age of 13 he joined the merchant navy. Phillip joined the Royal Navy at 15.
He saw action during the Seven Years' War in the Mediterranean at the Battle of Minorca in 1756. In 1762 he was promoted to Lieutenant. When the war ended in 1763 he was put on half pay.
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He got married and became a farmer in Lyndhurst, Hampshire. He separated from his wife about six years later.[2]
In 1774 Phillip joined the Portuguese Navy as a captain. H
