• Title
  Captain Thomas Watson, sea captain and surveyor, between 1869-1874 / photographer J. Hubert Newman
• Creator
  J. H. (John Hubert) Newman, 1830-1916
• Call number
  P1/1919
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  between 1869-1874
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  901274
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - carte de visite - 10 x 6.2 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Thomas Watson was born in Deptford in 1795. He married Hannah Hostage in 1818 and arrived in Sydney in 1821. In 1822 he was appointed Superintendent of Macquarie Light House. He was responsible for the statues of James Cook in Liverpool and Hyde Park, Sydney. He died at home in Randwick in 1879.
  
  Reference:
  Biographical details on a sheet accompanying this portrait from J. A. Thomson, Richmond, N.S.W.
  
  A detailed record of Captain Watson's life is held at the Genealogical Society, Richmond Villa, York Street, Sydney
  
  Reference:
  A roving commission : naval reminiscences / by Crawford Pasco. Melbourne : George Robertson, 1897 (London : R. Clay)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Watson, Capt. Thomas (BM), July 2010
  Digital order no:a4366019
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "... Randwick, N.S.W. presented by W. H. Brown, Esq, 29 January 1931" -- in ink on the reverse
  
  "who had the sandstone statue of Capt. Cook made from Pyrmont snadstone. This photo is reprod. in Pascoe - Roving commission, p 96" -- in pencil on the reverse
  
  Photographer's stamp
• Name
  Watson, Thomas, 1795-1879
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Carte de visite photographs.
  Portrait photography.
  
• Topic
  ships' captains
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3284563

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