John Clements Wickham
Captain John Clements Wickham | |
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Police Magistrate, District of Moreton Bay, New South Wales | |
In office 1 January 1843[1] – 8 April 1853[1] | |
Appointed by | Sir George Gipps |
Preceded by | Gilbert Elliot[2] |
Succeeded by | None; position renamed Police Magistrate, Brisbane[1] |
Government Resident, District of Moreton Bay, New South Wales | |
In office 8 April 1853[2] – 1858[2] | |
Appointed by | Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy |
Preceded by | None[2] |
Succeeded by | Frederick Rawkins[2] |
Personal details | |
Born | Biarritz, France | 21 November 1798
Resting place | churchyard of St Jean de Luz[3] |
Military service | |
Branch/service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1812 – 1841 |
Rank | Captain |
Commands | HMS Beagle |
John Clements Wickham (21 November 1798 – 6 January 1864) was a
In 1843, after his retirement from the Royal Navy, Wickham was made
The Wickham family
The origins of the Wickham family were in
On 21 February 1812 John Clements Wickham joined the Royal Navy.[7]: 461 [8] By 1815 he was an Admiralty Midshipman and was posted to HMS Nightingale and in 1818 was posted to HMS Hyperion before being paid off. He passed his Lieutenant's examination in 1819.[5]: 5
In 1825 he was appointed Second-Lieutenant on the British warship Adventure under the command of Phillip Parker King, son of Philip Gidley King, third Governor of New South Wales. The Adventure and the Beagle were ordered to survey the coasts of the southern part of South America, including Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.[7]: 461
Wickham transferred to the Beagle in 1831 as
On 10 January 1837, Wickham was promoted from lieutenant to captain and given command of the Beagle, while Lt John Lort Stokes – a shipmate from the first two journeys of the Beagle – was made first officer.[5]: 5 [9]
From 1837 to 1841, the Beagle charting the coasts of
Some notable events:[11]
- Reached Swan River15 November 1837
- Discovered Fitzroy River1838
- Left Sydney for Port Essington 22 May 1839
- Arrived Port Essington January 1840
- Discovered and named Adam Bay1840
- L. R. (Lewis Roper) Fitzmaurice (mate) discovered Adelaide River mouth at Clarence Strait 1840
- Discovered Port Darwin 1840
- Discovered Victoria River 1840
- Discovered Fitzmaurice River 1840
- April 1840 Wickham and Stokes found evidence of Zeewijk, (a Dutch East Indiaman wrecked 1727) on Gun Island off Geraldton.[12][13]
In 1841, Wickham fell ill and resigned his command which was taken over by Stokes, who continued the survey and completed the voyage in 1843. Darwin also took a Galápagos tortoise named Harriet which he gave to Wickham, who brought it to Brisbane. The tortoise gained fame for her longevity, living 175 years until 2006.[14]
Later life
Wickham became the police magistrate at the Moreton Bay District of New South Wales (now Queensland).[15]
From 1853, he was
In 1859, Wickham moved to the
Commemorations
Places
- Australia
- Cape Wickham and Cape Wickham Lighthouse, Tasmania;
- Point Wickham, now known as Caloundra Headland on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland;
- two islands in Western Australia
- a small island off Bernouilli Island (Timor Sea);
- a former name of Stanley Island, in the Recherche Archipelago;
- two different hills or peaks named Mount Wickham, in the Northern Territory and Queensland;
- Wickham, New South Wales, a suburb of Newcastle, which includes Wickham Park;
- the town of Wickham, Western Australia;[18]
- the headland of Wickham Point in the Northern Territory[19]
- Wickham Park, Brisbane;
- Wickham River, Northern Territory;[citation needed]
- a major street in Brisbane, Wyndham Vale, Victoria.
- Chile
- Falkland Islands
- Wickham Heights, including Mount Wickham
- Solomon Islands
- Wickham Island, New Georgia Islands group
Other commemorations
Two defunct
An Australian plant:
- Grevillea wickhamii (Wickham's Grevillea).
See also
- O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). John Murray – via Wikisource. . .
References
- ^ a b c Queensland State Archives Agency ID2700, Police Magistrate, Moreton Bay Archived 20 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine, The State of Queensland (Department of Public Works) 2004–2006 accessed 9 September 2011.
- ^ a b c d e Queensland State Archives Agency ID2193, Government Resident, Moreton Bay Archived 20 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine, The State of Queensland (Department of Public Works) 2004–2006 accessed 9 September 2011.
- ^ a b Ismail Street became Wickham St in 1922. Ayr Advocate, 13 August 2004, p16 (via factiva.com; accessed 12 September 2011).
- ^ a b c d e A. A. Morrison, "Wickham, John Clements (1798–1864)" Archived 15 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 8 September 2011.
- ^ ISSN 0085-5804.
- ISBN 1 873811 02 0.
- ^ ISSN 1837-8366 – via University of Queensland.
- ^ O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). John Murray – via Wikisource. . .
- ^ "From the London Gazette". Caledonian Mercury [Edinburgh, Scotland], 14 January 1837 (British Library Gale Document No. BB3205424269; accessed 14 September 2011).
- ^ The port became the site of the first enduring settlement on the north coast: Darwin, later capital and most populous city of the Northern Territory.
- ^ "Answers to Correspondents". The Voice of the North. No. 225. New South Wales, Australia. 10 May 1929. p. 14. Retrieved 9 May 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Colonial News". Adelaide Chronicle and South Australian Literary Record. Vol. II, no. LXXXIII. South Australia. 7 July 1841. p. 3. Retrieved 10 May 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Archaeological Evaluation of Gun Island" (PDF). WA Museum. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ^ a b "Australia Zoo – About Us – In The News – Harriet's 92 million minutes of fame". October 2005. Archived from the original on 7 September 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
- ^ L. E. Skinner, "Law and justice for the Queensland colony", (1972) Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, Vol. 9 no. 3 pp 94-106.
- ^ "Romantic Story of Newstead House". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 12 June 1937. p. 19. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- The Courier (Brisbane). Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 19 March 1864. p. 3. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- ^ Landgate, 2012, "History of Country Town Names" Archived 19 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine (9 November 2012).
- ^ "Place Names Register Extract for Wickham Point". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
Further reading
- A. A. Morrison, "Wickham, John Clements (1798–1864)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University (also available in hard copy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 2, (1967, Melbourne University Press) p 597).
- G. J. McCarthy, Wickham, John Clements (1798–1864), Encyclopedia of Australian Science 2010.