Bennelong
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Woollarawarre Bennelong, also spelt Baneelon, was a senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal Australian people of the Port Jackson area, at the time of the first British settlement in Australia in 1788. Bennelong served as an interlocutor between the Eora and the British, both in the colony of New South Wales and in the United Kingdom.
Taking of Colebee and Bennelong 25 November 1789 by William Bradley
Arthur Phillip
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Arthur Phillip was a British Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales.
HMS Buckingham, Phillip's first posting after joining the Navy in 1755. Vessel pictured on the stocks at Deptford Dockyard, c. 1751. Painting by John Cleveley the Elder. National Maritime Museum, London.
The landing of the First Fleet in Port Jackson in 1788
The Founding of Australia By Capt. Arthur Phillip R.N., Sydney Cove, Jan. 26th 1788. Painting by Algernon Talmage, 1937.