John T. Arundel - Chronology

Chronology

• 1841 Born in England. His paternal grandfather, John Arundel, was Home Secretary of the London Missionary Society.
• 1872 Started John T. Arundel & Co., Sydney.
• 1881 Started coconut plantation on Flint Island.
• 1884 His second daughter was born on Sydney Island, and named for the island.
• 1885, March 3. Lectured at the Geographical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, California.
• 1897 J. T. Arundel & Co., Ltd., headquartered in Sydney, Australia merged with Henderson and McFarlane to form the Pacific Islands Company, headquartered in London, England.
• 1897 Visited Clipperton.
• 1902 The Pacific Islands Company became the Pacific Phosphate Company, and began phosphate mining on Banaba in 1901 and phosphate mining in Nauru in 1906.
• 1909 He travelled on maiden voyage of the S.S. Ocean Queen, to Nauru and Ocean Island. On this voyage he visited Jarvis Island, where his daughter Sydney photographed the construction of a day beacon.
• 1909 (September) The S.S. Ocean Queen was wrecked on the reef at Makatea; a bent connecting rod caused the engines to stop and the current carried the ship onto the reef.
• 1909 (October) In San Francisco J. T. Arundel became a member of the Pacific Union Club. He suffered a heart attack and subsequently he resigned as deputy chairman of the PPC.
• 1919 Died on 30 November 1919 at Bournemouth, England.