sketcher and army officer, was a lieutenant in the 48th Regiment who was in Australia c.1818-1823. 'Cape Pillar and Tasman’s island bearing NW. by west’ is dated 1818 while NSW sketches are dated 1823, e.g. 'Entrance of the Harbour, Port Jackson, on the south head stands the lighthouse and flagstaffs, seven miles from Sydney Cove’ and 'The Female Factory at Parramatta, a station fifteen miles from Sydney, New South Wales’. Drawings of a boat he owned with three other officers of the 48th Regiment, The Nonsuch (launched 1820), were also made in 1823.
He was in India in 1825-6; 'Lieutenant Roberts’s quarters at Fort St George, Madras, the tent walls making his room into two’ is dated 1825 (et al.) while 'View from Lieut. Roberts’s tent at Vallaporam on the road from Tritchinopoly to Madras’ is dated 1826. He returned to England via France later that year; 'St Cloud the residence of Charles X, King of France’, 'A diligence, or French stagecoach’ and 'The city barge (the Maria Wood) at Teddington above the locks’, are all dated 1826.
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