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John Hindmarsh
Sir John Hindmarsh was a British naval officer who fought at the battles of the Nile and Trafalgar and became the first governor of South Australia. He proclaimed the province at Holdfast Bay in December 1836 but quarrelled with the resident commissioner and with William Light over the site of Adelaide, and was recalled in 1838. He later served as lieutenant governor of Heligoland.
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