King Family - Letters concerning Phillip Parker King, 1828, 1856

MLMSS 7736

fonds

1828, 1856

Textual Records, Photographs

456514

Microfilm : CY 4683, frames 20-32 (MLMSS 7736)

1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
Photographs

Phillip Parker King was the third son of Philip Gidley King, third governor of N.S.W. He was born on Norfolk Island in 1791 and entered the Royal Navy in 1807. He married Harriet Lethbridge in 1817 and between that year and 1822 he made four surveying voyages whose aim was to explore and chart those parts of the Australian coast not surveyed by Matthew Flinders. Between 1826 and 1830 he charted the coasts of Peru, Chile and Patagonia. During this time Dunheved, his farm near Penrith, was managed by his wife. He was promoted to captain in 1830 and rear-admiral in 1855. He died in 1856.

16 May 1828; Letter (4 pp.) from Harriet King to Phillip Parker King. Harriet King advises her husband of an alarming discrepancy in the Dunheved farm accounts, her doubts about the reliability of the farm manager W. Hayes and her difficulties with his wife. She concludes with the news that John Oxley is dying.
27 February 1856; Letter (4 pp.) from Captain Stephan Fremantle of H.M.S. Juno to Frederick King on the death of his father Phillip Parker King. Fremantle gives a detailed account of the last few hours of P.P. King's life.
11 March 1856; Letter of condolence (4 pp.) from Rt. Rev. William Tyrell, Bishop of Newcastle, to Harriet King on the death of Phillip Parker King