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    ADMIRAL ARTHUR PHILLIP 1738-1814
    Founder and First Governor of Australia
    West Country Gentleman

    Arthur Phillip was born in London on 11th October 1738, the son of Jacob Phillip, a language teacher from Frankfurt, and Elizabeth, née Breach, who had remarried after the death of her previous husband, Captain John Herbert, RN.  Young Arthur Phillip attended the Greenwich Naval Seamen’s College, was bound apprentice aboard a whaler based in Greenland, and joined the Royal Navy as a Midshipman at 15.

    Phillip took part in the Battle of Minorca against the French and saw service in the Mediterranean.

     In 1760 he served in the Caribbean under a relative, Captain Everitt, arriving in Antigua in October of that year.  There he saw slavery for the first time:  he fought against it for the rest of his life.  Promoted to lieutenant in June 1761, he was mentioned in dispatches at “The Siege of Havana” the following year.

    Returning to an England at peace, P