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Webster, Alexander George (1830 - 1914)

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Alexander George Webster (1830-1914), merchant, was born on 3 December 1830 in London. He spent two years at Cape of Good Hope with his mother and sister before they sailed to Sydney in the Roxburgh Castle; they arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1840. Educated at the Melville Street school in Hobart Town and at a private boarding-school at Kempton, he was also a pupil of the artist Thomas Evans Chapman. Later, as an amateur he exhibited both water-colours and pencil drawings of the Tasmanian landscape.

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Volume

6

Editors

G Serle and R Ward

Pagination

374-375

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Melbourne University Press

Place of publication

Melbourne

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Understanding Australia’s past

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