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    John Clements Wickham (21 November 1798 – 6 January 1864) was a Scottish explorer, naval officer, magistrate and administrator. He was first lieutenant...
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    transported to England, and then taken to her final home, Australia, by John Clements Wickham, the retiring captain of the Beagle. However, doubt is cast on this...
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  • Wickham (attorney) (1763–1839), 18th-century American attorney John A. Wickham, Jr. (born 1928), 20th-century American general John Clements Wickham (1798–1864)...
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    to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839. The ship's captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles...
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    by Charles Darwin aboard the Beagle and then on to Australia by John Clements Wickham. Harriet died on June 23, 2006, just shy of her 176th birthday....
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  • player John Clements Wickham (1798–1864), naval officer and judge Jonathan Clements (born 1971), British author and screenwriter John Clement (disambiguation)...
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    the state average. Wickham was established in 1970 by Cliffs Robe River Iron Associates (Robe) and named after John Clements Wickham, the captain of HMS...
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    McArthur). In 1847 he sold Newstead House to his brother-in-law John Clements Wickham (married to Anna McArthur), the Police Magistrate and Government...
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    commissioned on 4 July 1831 under his command, with Lieutenants John Clements Wickham and Bartholomew James Sulivan. Beagle was immediately taken into...
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  • Wickham Island may refer to a number of places named after John Clements Wickham: Two islands in Western Australia: Wickham Island (Kimberley coast),...
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    to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839. The ship's captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles...
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  • Kimberley region of Western Australia. Beagle Bay was named in 1838 by John Clements Wickham, captain of HMS Beagle The community is situated adjacent to the...
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    of Wickham Terrace down to the Roma Street railway station. Wickham Park was named after John Clements Wickham. It was formerly known as the Wickham Terrace...
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  • therein Wickham, Quebec Wickham, Berkshire Wickham, Hampshire Wickham Bishops, Essex Wickham Market, Suffolk Wickham Skeith, Suffolk Wickham St. Paul...
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    FitzRoy was commissioned as commander of the voyage, and Lieutenants John Clements Wickham and Bartholomew James Sulivan were both appointed. Captain Francis...
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    occupation, on the largest island in the Pelsart Group. The commander, John Clements Wickham, named the place Gun Island and the passage between the Easter and...
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    lieutenant, and served under Commander John Clements Wickham for a survey of Australasian waters. When Wickham was invalided in 1841, Stokes took command...
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    known as Petrie Point and Point Wickham (or Wickham Point). Point Wickham takes its name from John Clements Wickham, who did a hydrographic survey of...
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    1828, the island was named Bathurst Island by Scottish explorer John Clements Wickham, after the explorer Phillip Parker King's ship which had explored...
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  • after John Clements Wickham, the British naval officer who named Darwin Harbour. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 21 April 2004. Wickham includes...
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    Wickham Terrace has been noted for its private medical specialists (similar to Harley Street in London). Wickham Terrace is named after John Clements...
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    was transferred from the Inspector General of Police in Sydney to John Clements Wickham who was the Government Resident in Brisbane. New officers such as...
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    named in April 1840 by the crew of HMS Beagle, under the command of John Clements Wickham. Stoke's journal, published as Discoveries in Australia in 1846...
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  • Bay was named after Admiral Sir Charles Adam in 1840 by Captain John Clements Wickham of HMS Beagle . Adam Bay was investigated in 1864 by a survey party...
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    settlement. He was also the acting administrator, until the arrival of John Clements Wickham, and a Justice of the Peace. Simpson's first home in the colony...
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    Press. ISBN 1-873811-02-0. Drury Clarke, C.G. (1984). "Captain John Clements Wickham, R.N. his antecedents and descendants". Journal of the Royal Historical...
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  • after Yilbung's corpse was brought to Brisbane, police magistrate John Clements Wickham announced that his death was 'justifiable homicide' and Bickerton...
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  • to John Clements Wickham, Commander during the third voyage of HMS Beagle, which surveyed East Wallabi Island in May 1840. Wickham's lieutenant, John Lort...
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    through capsizing. The third voyage of Beagle, under the command of John Clements Wickham, began in 1837 with a mission to chart the west coast of Australia...
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    metres (42 ft) high. Record Island was discovered on 22 May 1840 by John Clements Wickham, Commander during the third voyage of HMS Beagle: "The highest hill...
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