Yemmerrawanne
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Yemmerrawanne was a member of the Wangal clan, part of the Dharug people in the Port Jackson area at the time of the first British settlement in Australia, in 1788. Along with another Aboriginal man,
Yemmerrawanne's tombstone in a church yard in Eltham, Kent
Arthur Phillip
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Arthur Phillip was a Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales.
Yemmerrawanne
…Jackson area at the time of the first British settlement in Australia, in 1788. Along with another Aboriginal man, Bennelong, he accompanied Governor Arthur Phillip when the latter returned to England in 1792–93. Yemmerrawanne did not return to Australia; he fell ill, died and was buried in England. Yemmerrawanne…
Captain Arthur Phillip, 1786, by Francis Wheatley
HMS Buckingham, Phillip's first posting after joining the Navy in 1755. Vessel pictured on the stocks at Deptford Dockyard on the River Thames, c. 1751. Painting by John Cleveley the Elder. National Maritime Museum, London.
The landing of the First Fleet in Port Jackson, Australia in 1788
The Founding of Australia By Capt. Arthur Phillip R.N., Sydney Cove, Jan. 26th 1788. Painting by Algernon Talmage, 1937.