sketcher, businessman and newspaper proprietor, came from Loughborough, Scotland, to Van Diemen’s Land in March 1835 in the barque Wave. He made a number of pencil drawings of Hobart Town in 1838 (LT). In 1850 he settled in Geelong, Victoria, where he established the Barwonside wool-scouring works and later wool stores. He was also a proprietor of the Geelong Advertiser. In 1869 he exhibited his On the Derwent, Tasmania at the Geelong Mechanics Institute, together with a watercolour, Sunrise in Wales, by his wife Elizabeth. Their son, Henry Percival, a lawyer, became managing director of the Geelong Advertiser.
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- Writers:
- Fox, Paul
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
