Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Lieutenant Daniel Southwell (c. 1764–21 August 1797) was a Royal Navy officer and member of the First Fleet which founded European settlement in Australia in 1788.Southwell joined the Navy at the age of sixteen and travelled to Australia as midshipman, and later as Mate, aboard the Fleet flagship HMS Sirius. He remained in the newly established penal colony for three years, including one year as commander of the lookout station at Sydney's South Head. A series of letters from Southwell to his parents in England offer depictions of early colonial life and the first substantive interactions between Europeans and Australian Aborigines. The letters also reveal clashes between the colonial Governor, Captain Arthur Phillip, and his senior military officer Major Robert Ross, and Southwell's deep pessimism regarding the colony's economic and governmental prospects.Southwell returned to England in 1791 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1794. He saw active service in the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars but was wounded in action off the Portuguese coast and died in Lisbon Hospital on 21 August 1797.. }
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- Daniel_Southwell abstract "Lieutenant Daniel Southwell (c. 1764–21 August 1797) was a Royal Navy officer and member of the First Fleet which founded European settlement in Australia in 1788.Southwell joined the Navy at the age of sixteen and travelled to Australia as midshipman, and later as Mate, aboard the Fleet flagship HMS Sirius. He remained in the newly established penal colony for three years, including one year as commander of the lookout station at Sydney's South Head. A series of letters from Southwell to his parents in England offer depictions of early colonial life and the first substantive interactions between Europeans and Australian Aborigines. The letters also reveal clashes between the colonial Governor, Captain Arthur Phillip, and his senior military officer Major Robert Ross, and Southwell's deep pessimism regarding the colony's economic and governmental prospects.Southwell returned to England in 1791 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1794. He saw active service in the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars but was wounded in action off the Portuguese coast and died in Lisbon Hospital on 21 August 1797.".