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| 2 | List of governors of Penang - Governors of Prince of Wales Island |  |  |  |
| 3 | Appointed | Name | Ended | Notes |
| 4 | 5 December 1804 | Philip Dundas | 8 April 1807 | Died in office |
| 5 | 8 April 1807 | Henry Shepherd Pearson | 2 March 1808 | Acting |
| 6 | 2 March 1808 | Norman Macalister | March 1810 | - |
| 7 | 24 Mar.1810 | Charles Andrew Bruce | December 1810 | Died in office. |
| 8 | December 1810 | William Edward Phillips | 1811 | Acting. |
| 9 | 1811 | Archibald Seton | 1812 | - |
| 10 | 1811 | William Petrie | 1812 | Acting while Seton in Java |
| 11 | 29 January 1812 | William Petrie | 27 October 1816 | Died in office |
| 12 | 27 October 1816 | William Edward Phillips | 18 March 1817 | Acting |
| 13 | 18 March 1817 | John Alexander Bannerman | 8 August 1819 | Died in office |
| 14 | 1 March 1820 | William Edward Phillips | Aug. 1824. | - |
| 15 | 4 February 1824 | - | 12 November 1829 | Governor of the Straits Settlements (1826–1830) |

Question: What were the circumstances of William Edward Phillips's first tenure as governor of Penang?
Answer: On the death of Charles Andrew Bruce, Dec. 1810 till Archibald Seton arrived in 1811.