King family collection of correspondence, personal letters, newspaper cuttings, land sale documents and plans, etc., 1756-1917

fonds

1756-1917

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Design Drawings

826051

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. In 1791 he married Anna Josepha Coombe and returned 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.

Phillip Parker King, 1791-1856, was the son of Philip Gidley King and Anna Josepha (nee Coombe). Phillip Parker joined the navy in 1807. In 1817 he married Harriet Lethbridge. In 1826 he sailed in command of HMS Adventure in company with HMS Beagle to survey the southern coast of South America. He settled in Sydney and in 1855 attained the rank of rear-admiral. He was appointed resident commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Co. for ten eventful years in its history.

Philip Gidley King, 1817-1904, pastoralist, was born on 31 October 1817 at Parramatta, eldest son of Phillip Parker King and his wife Harriet, née Lethbridge. In 1843 at St John's Church, Parramatta, he married Elizabeth (d.1889), daughter of Hannibal Macarthur. In 1851 King was appointed superintendent of stock for the Australian Agricultural Co. and soon became assistant superintendent of the company's estates.

This collection of papers from the King family covers the three generations from Governor Philip Gidley King, 1758-1808, to his son, Phillip Parker King, 1791-1856, and to the Governor’s grandson, Philip Gidley King, 1817-1904. Documents range from official correspondence concerning the administration of the colony to personal letters between family members, to the management of business and property.

SERIES 01
King family correspondence, letters and memorials, etc. received with drafts of letters sent, volume 1, 1799-1827

SERIES 02
King family correspondence, volume 2, 1830-1917

SERIES 03
King family correspondence concerning the goldfields, volume 3, 1883-1897

SERIES 04
King family Dunheved papers, volume 4, 1877-1889

SERIES 05
Philip Gidley King’s comments on Cook’s Log, with correspondence, volume 5, 1891-1895

SERIES 06
King family miscellaneous papers, meteorological tables, newspaper cuttings, land sale documents, volume 6, 1817-1908

SERIES 07
King family legal documents, volume 7, 1756-1815

SERIES 08
King family correspondence and memoranda, volume 8, 1775-1806

SERIES 09
King family correspondence, letters, bills of exchange and further papers, etc., volume 9, 1805-1850

This collection is arranged into nine series.

Historical Records of New South Wales. Sydney : Government Printer, 1892-1901 (Sydney : Charles Potter, Government Printer).

Parts of this collection of papers was used by F.M. Bladen, the editor of N.S.W. Historical Records in compiling that work, many of the documents would appear to have come from papers in N.S.W. Colonial Secretary’s Department.