George Gipps
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Sir George Gipps was the Governor of the British Colony of New South Wales for eight years, between 1838 and 1846. His governorship oversaw a tumultuous period when the rights to land were bitterly co
Governor Gipps
Sir George Gipps
George Gipps memorial, Canterbury Cathedral
Richard Bourke
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Sir Richard Bourke was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of New South Wales from 1831 to 1837. As a lifelong Whig, he encouraged the emancipation of convicts
George Gipps
…location" and to minimise conflict between them and the Aboriginal people who resided in these lands. In 1839, Gipps amended an Act brought in by Governor Richard Bourke three years earlier that attempted to restrain the unauthorised occupation of Crown Lands. Gipps' amendment allowed for the formation of the Border…
Portrait by Martin Archer Shee, c. 1837–1850
Bourke c. 1835
A statue of General Sir Richard Bourke, the first public statue ever erected in Australia, stands outside the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney.