Lieutenant George Phillpotts was an officer of the Royal Navy.
18 Facts About George Phillpotts
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George Phillpotts, the eighth of fifteen children of Henry Phillpotts and Deborah Maria Surtees, was born in Durham, England in or before January 1814, and baptised at Durham Cathedral on 26 January 1814.
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George Phillpotts entered the Royal Navy on 5 September 1827, advanced to mate through examination on 26 November 1833, served on HMS Asia.
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George Phillpotts had been in the navy, but on account of his father's politicks could not obtain promotion and quitted, and was employing himself in a colliery and in iron works at Dudley.
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George Phillpotts is a young man possessing most distinguished talent, consummate personal bravery, and unsullied reputation.
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Under the sanction of these testimonials he made an application to the Admiralty for promotion, but a hint not be misunderstood was given to him, that the name George Phillpotts alone was a bar to all promotion, however in every other respect he might be deserving of it.
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George Phillpotts received his commission in the Royal Navy with rank of lieutenant on 12 November 1841.
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George Phillpotts took Cornwallis in tow up to Kin Shan.
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George Phillpotts stood in the river with HM Ships Cornwallis, Blonde, Modeste, Childers, Clio, Driver, and HEIC steamers Auckland, Queen, Pluto, Phlegathon and Medussa during the treaty negotiations that bought an end to the war.
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Lieutenant George Phillpotts was appointed to HMS Hazard, under Commander Charles Bell, RN, on 15 December 1842, the day of her arrival at Sydney, New South Wales.
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Late in 1844 or early 1845, George Phillpotts was lounging in Wood's Royal Hotel, Auckland, reading the Auckland Times when some disagreeable content compelled him dismiss the newspaper as "a rag", and describe other uses to which it could be put.
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In review of the battle's sequence of unfortunate events on 11 March 1845, George Phillpotts reported to Governor FitzRoy on 15 March:.
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George Phillpotts then drew his sword, threw the scabbard into the fern; his forage cap, a soldier's, after the scabbard; and left, attired in a sailor's blue woollen shirt, tight cotton drawers, boots, and naked sword.
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George Phillpotts followed Major Macpherson's attacking column, which passed us a short distance off.
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George Phillpotts actually climbed the pekerangi, a small portion of which had been loosened by sword-cuts delivered against the torotoro lashings and partly pulled down.
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John Webster recalled that a war cry was danced when George Phillpotts' scalped body was found.
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Archdeacon Henry Williams, in recovering George Phillpotts' body, recovered his eyeglass and a portion of his scalp, found hanging by the inner palisade it was said, which he passed over the Captain Johnson, RN, HMS Hazard.
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George Phillpotts later gave it to the Rev William Davis.