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Haughton Forrest
Haughton Forrest (30 December 1826, Boulogne-sur-Mer – 20 January 1925, Melton Mowbray), sometimes incorrectly referred to as James Haughton Forrest, was an Australian artist who specialized in landscapes and maritime scenes. Biography He was one of ten children born to a military family. His father, Thomas, was an equerry to Queen Victoria. It is not clear why the family was in France, but they lived there until 1830, when the July Revolution forced them to leave. After travelling a bit, they settled in Jamaica, where his father owned sugar plantations. He attended the Manning's School in Jamaica and continued at a military academy in Wiesbaden.Brief biography @ the Companion to Tasmanian History. In 1852, he obtained a commission in the |
Haughton Forrest
Haughton Forrest (30 December 1826, Boulogne-sur-Mer – 20 January 1925, Melton Mowbray), sometimes incorrectly referred to as James Haughton Forrest, was an Australian artist who specialized in landscapes and maritime scenes. Biography He was one of ten children born to a military family. His father, Thomas, was an equerry to Queen Victoria. It is not clear why the family was in France, but they lived there until 1830, when the July Revolution forced them to leave. After travelling a bit, they settled in Jamaica, where his father owned sugar plantations. He attended the Manning's School in Jamaica and continued at a military academy in Wiesbaden.Brief biography @ the Companion to Tasmanian History. In 1852, he obtained a commission in the |
Sorell, Tasmania
Sorell is a town in Tasmania, Australia, north-east of Hobart. It is located on the Tasman Highway at the junction with the Arthur Highway. Sorell is one of Tasmania's oldest towns, being first settled in 1808 as a small farming community and becoming an official township in 1821. At the , Sorell had a population of 1,546, and at the 2011 census, a population of 2,476. and at the 2016 census, a population of 2,907. History Sorell was named after William Sorell, the third Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land. Historically, it was known as a major town on the route from Hobart to Port Arthur on the Tasman Peninsula. It was the centre of an agricultural area and an important market town. It is now a dormitory town of Hobart, as well as the seat of the Sorell Council. In 1872 the Sorell Causeway was opened, from the Cambridge direction, across Pitt Water and Orielton Lagoon to Sorell, stopping at Midway Point in the middle. This shortened the route considerably from the or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Australian Painters
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Police Officers
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Australian Landscape Painters
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Someth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 Deaths
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1826 Births
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Russell Falls
The Russell Falls, a Waterfall#Types, tieredcascade waterfall on the Russell Falls Creek, is located in the Central Highlands (Tasmania), Central Highlands region of Tasmania, Australia. Location and features The Russell Falls are situated on the eastern boundary of Mount Field National Park, downstream of the Horseshoe Falls (Tasmania), Horseshoe Falls, approximately northwest of Hobart via the Brooker Highway, Brooker and Lyell Highway, Lyell highways. Accessible by a paved walking track, the falls are a popular tourism, tourist attraction. The waterfall descends over horizontal marine Permian siltstone benches, while the vertical faces of the falls are composed of resistant sandstone layers. They were first named the Brownings Falls after the original discoverer, ''circa'' 1856, but were known as the Russell Falls after 1884, by which time they were already a popular tourist attraction. The Falls Reserve was established in 1885 and in 1899 the Russell Falls were selected a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruny Island
Bruny Island ( Nuenonne: Lunawanna-alonnah) is a island located off the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is separated from the Tasmanian mainland by the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, and its east coast lies within the Tasman Sea. Storm Bay is located to the island's northeast. Both the island and the channel are named after French explorer, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Its traditional Aboriginal name is lunawanna-allonah, which survives as the name of two island settlements, Alonnah and Lunawanna. Geography Geologically, Bruny Island is actually two land masses—North Bruny and South Bruny—that are joined by a long, narrow, sandy isthmus, often referred to as "The Neck". The island has a total length of approximately . The holiday village of Dennes Point is located in North Bruny, while South Bruny is the site of the towns of Alonnah, Adventure Bay and Lunawanna. Outside its settlements, the island is covered in grazing fields and large tracts o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corra Lynn
Corra may refer to: Places * Corra Linn Dam, a concrete hydroelectric dam on the Kootenay River in the Canadian province of British Columbia * Corra Castle, a ruined 16th-century castle within the Corehouse Estate near New Lanark, Scotland * Irish name for Currow, County Kerry, Ireland, a village People ; Surname * Bruno Corra, the pseudonym of Bruno Ginanni Corradini (1892–1976), Italian writer and screenwriter * Henry John Corra (born 1955), American documentary filmmaker * William Skinner of Corra William Skinner of Corra WS FRSE DL JP (1823–1901) was a 19th-century Scottish lawyer and author. He was Town Clerk of Edinburgh from 1874 to 1895. Life He was born on 26 July 1823, the son of John Robert Skinner WS and his wife, Ann Bl ... (1823–1901), Scottish lawyer and author ; Given name * Cornelius Wilhelmus "Corra" Dirken (1938–2020), former South African rugby player * Corra Mae Harris (1869–1935), American writer and journalist Science * ''Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postage Stamps And Postal History Of Tasmania
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Tasmania (originally known as Van Diemen's Land), a former British colony that is now part of Australia. First stamps The first stamps of Van Diemen's Land were issued on 1 November 1853.''Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue: Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps 1840-1970''. 110th edition. London: Stanley Gibbons, 2008, p. 27. The colony was renamed in 1852 but until old stamp supplies were used up the Van Diemens Land stamps were used. The first stamps inscribed Tasmania were issued in January 1858. Until 1896, all postage stamps portrayed Queen Victoria. In 1899, a pictorial set was issued and was reprinted several times until 1912. Tasmania's last issue was in 1913 and was superseded by those of Australia. Postal fiscals Between 1882 and 1900, revenue stamps of 1863 to 1900 were valid for postage. These postal fiscals remained in use unofficially until 1903. Gallery File:1855 TasmanieSG16.jpg, 1855 2 pence green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Watt Beattie
John Watt Beattie (15 August 1859 – 24 June 1930) was an Australian photographer. Beattie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1890. He was appointed Photographer to the Government of Tasmania on 21 December 1896. He did extensive photography around Tasmania, as well as in the Central Highlands and on the West Coast of Tasmania. He was employed by North Mount Lyell to photograph between Gormanston and Kelly Basin in the 1890s. Beattie travelled with lantern slide shows on various subjects – "A trip through Tasmania", "From Kelly's Basin to Gormanston", as well as " Port Arthur and Tasman Peninsula", the photographs frequently published posthumously in ''Walkabout'', and his images of places such as Port Arthur and the Isle of the Dead were used as postcards in the early twentieth century. Beattie's work was notable in that it crystallised around a Romantic tradition that promoted a sympathetic orientat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
