For his grandfather, the governor, see Philip Gidley King. For his father, the naval officer, explorer & member of the Legislative Council, see Phillip Parker King.
Philip Gidley King (31 October 1817 – 5 August 1904) was a pastoralist and politician from the colony of New South Wales. He served as a member of New South Wales Legislative Council from 1880 until his death in 1904. In 1843 at St John's Church, Parramatta, he married Elizabeth (d.1899), daughter of Hannibal Macarthur.[1]
In December 1831, he sailed as midshipman on HMS Beagle where he befriended Charles Darwin who he remained in contact with over the course of his lifetime.[4] In January 1836, he returned to Parramatta, and subsequently he worked on pastoral stations on the Murrumbidgee River and around Port Phillip.[2] In 1842 he took charge of horse and cattle studs at Stroud for the Australian Agricultural Company. He married Elizabeth Macarthur in 1843; they had four children. From 1854, King managed a property near Tamworth.[2]
In 1892, at the request of the publisher John Murray, King was asked for recollections as a possible supplement to the new illustrated edition of Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle. These reminiscences are now held at the State Library of New South Wales along with an unpublished autobiography written in 1894.[6] King died at Double Bay in Sydney on the 5 August 1904.[5][7]
Trustee of Australian Museum 1881 - 1904. Member of Aborigines Protection Board 1883 - 1904. Married Elizabeth Macarthur in 1843 and had, 1 daughter and 3 sons.[8]
In the 1880s he was the director of the Mercantile Bank of Sydney that became part of the Bank of New South Wales.[9]
References
^"Philip Gidley King (1817–1904)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
^Phillip Parker King (1826–1830). Surveying notebooks / Phillip Parker King (Series 01: Papers of Phillip Parker King, 1826-1844 ed.). State Library of New South Wales.
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