John Clements Wickham

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John Clements Wickham (December 21, 1798–January 6, 1864) was a Lieutenant of HMS Beagle during her second survey mission from 1831 to 1836 which took the young naturalist Charles Darwin on what became the subject of his book, The Voyage of the Beagle. Wickham was then made captain, and Commander of the Beagle on her third voyage which set off in 1837 and conducted various maritime expeditions and hydrographic surveys along the Australian coastline.

In 1839 Lieutenant John Lort Stokes sighted a natural harbour which Wickham named Port Darwin after their former shipmate, the naturalist. This later became a settlement which developed into the territorial capital and most populous city of Australia's Northern Territory. 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.

Wickham became the first Government Resident at the Moreton Bay area of Brisbane, Queensland, where he was police magistrate from 1843.