Phillip Parker King family papers, ca. 1826-1854

MLMSS 3358
PXB 603

fonds

ca. 1826-1854

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings

422731

1 box - 0.05 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
1 sketchbook (48 drawings) - 8 x 14 cm - pencil

Phillip Parker King (1791-1856), naval officer and hydrographer, was the son of Philip Gidley King (1758-1808), and Anna Josepha King, nee Coombe, (d.1844). He was a commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Co., and a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. His son, Philip Gidley King, the younger (1817-1904), was involved in the management of the Australian Agricultural Co., the formation of the Peel River Land and Mining Co., and was a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, 1880-1904.

MLMSS 3358

Series 01: Phillip Parker King, ca.1826-1854
Includes letters from Philip Gidley King, the younger; Charles Augustus FitzRoy; Walter Stevenson Davidson; and correspondence with John Studholme Brownrigg and Robert Copland Lethbridge; and an annotated copy, ca.1826-ca.1830, of Apendice a la relacion del viage al Magallanes de la fragata de guerra Santa Maria de la Cabeza, que contiene el de los paquebotes Santa Casilda y Santa Eulalia para completar el reconocimiento del Estrecho en los anos de 1788 y 1789. Trabajado de orden superior, Madrid, 1793.

Series 02: Philip Gidley King, the younger, 1846-1853
Letters received from Phillip Parker King

Series 03: Anna Josepha King, 1833-1842
Correspondence with her accountants Thomas Stilwell and Sons, London

PXB 603

1 sketchbook of 48 pencil drawings of landscape views of Wilson's Promontory (Vic.), Lake Macquarie, Toronto and the Shoalhaven Region (N.S.W.), 1890

Restricted: - - PXB 607

Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955 (Artworks)
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

This collection was listed as part of the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in NSW 1856-2006 Project..

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.4084 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13