Alfred D. Douglass b. 1820

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Alfred D. Douglass was a sketcher, businessman and newspaper proprietor. He came from Scotland to Van Diemen's Land in 1835. Douglass was a proprietor of the Geelong Advertiser.
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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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Fox, Paul
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1992
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2011

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  • Percival, Henry (parent of)
Related people
  • Douglass, Elizabeth (spouse of)
Related works
  • On the Derwent, Tasmania (creator of)
Related collections
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria (collected in)