• Title
  Series 3: King family - Papers of Philip Gidley King, 1783-1811
• Call number
  SAFE/MLMSS 4530/Box 1 (Safe 1/325)
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1783-1811
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  10353
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 3735, frames 1-76 (MLMSS 4530/1, Items 1-16
  
• Physical Description
  0.03 metres of textual material (4 folders, 3 rolls) - manuscript - 24.0 x 35.5 cm; 4 cm (dia.)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Philip Gidley King, 1758-1808, joined the British Navy in 1770 and after service on several ships was selected by Arthur Phillip as second lieutenant on the Sirius. Subsequently in 1788 and 1791 he went to Norfolk Island in charge of the settlement. He went back to England in ill health in 1796, but returned to New South Wales in 1799 with a dormant commission as Governor. He became the third Governor of New South Wales in 1800. In 1806 he resigned and sailed on H.M.S. Buffalo to England where he died in 1808.
• Scope and Content
  1783-1807; Commissions of appointment to various ships including H.M.S. Sirius, 1786, and Buffalo, 1801 (Call No.: MLMSS 4530/1/1-7)
  1790; Commission of appointment as Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island (Call No.: MLMSS 4530/1/8)
  1798; Commission of appointment as Governor of New South Wales in case of death or absence of John Hunter (Call No.: MLMSS 4530/1/9)
  1791-1807; Receipts for foreign accounts raised by King while on Norfolk Island, in New South Wales and in South America (Call No.: MLMSS 4530/1/10-12)
  1811; Probate document concerning Philip Gidley King (Call No.: MLMSS 4530/1/13)
  1802-1808; Letters received (2), being letter (incomplete) from Lord Hobart, 1802, and letter from Captain Charles Grant, 27 April 1808, concerning Phillip Parker King (Call No.: MLMSS 4530/1/14-15)
  1799; Letter to Samuel Enderby from Philip Gidley King, 5 Sept. 1799, concerning his returning to New South Wales (Call No.: MLMSS 4530/1/16)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Buckinghamshire, Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of, 1760-1816
  Enderby, Samuel, 1756-1829
  Grant, Charles
  King, Philip Gidley, 1758-1808
  
• Name
  Buffalo (Ship)
  King, Phillip Parker, 1791-1856
  Sirius (Ship)
  
• Subject
  Governors--New South Wales.
  Great Britain. Royal Navy--Officers.
  
• Place
  Norfolk Island
  South America
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20500169

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