• Title
  Philip Gidley King - Commission of appointment as Captain-General and Governor in Chief of New South Wales / George III, King of Great Britain
• Creator
  Philip Gidley King, 1758-1808
• Call number
  Safe 1/101
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  20 February 1802
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  456931
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 2207, frames 1-11 (Safe 1/101)
  
• Physical Description
  0.03 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) - 66 x 86 cm - manuscript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Philip Gidley King, 1758-1808, joined the British Navy in 1770 and after service on several ships was selected by Arthur Phillip as second lieutenant on the Sirius. Subsequently in 1788 and 1791 he went to Norfolk Island in charge of the settlement. He went back to England in ill health in 1796, but returned to New South Wales in 1799 with a dormant commission as Governor. He became the third Governor of New South Wales in 1800. In 1806 he resigned and sailed on H.M.S. Buffalo to England where he died in 1808.
• Scope and Content
  A certified copy of the original commission, issued by George III, held in the Public Record Office, London. The commission raised King's status from lieutenant-governor to governor.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Transferred from MLDOC 387
  
  A transcript of the commission is available in the Bonwick Transcripts collection in BT box 60, pages 102-129 (on microfilm at CY 1904, frames 106-134).
• Creator/Author/Artist
  George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
  
• Subject
  Governors--New South Wales.
  Public administration--New South Wales.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20518981

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