Amateur artist, engineer and author was born in Colchester, England, UK. He entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich receiving a commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1848. Du Cane volunteered to superintend works at the convict establishment in Western Australia and arrived in 1851. He was placed in charge of the Eastern Districts comprising Toodyay and York. Du Cane took up residence in Guildford in 1852. Promoted to first lieutenant in 1854 he married Mary Dorothea Molloy, daughter of Georgiana (qv) and Jack, in 1855. They returned to England in 1856 where he became Chairman of Directors of Convict Prisons in 1869 and made KGB in 1877. Du Cane’s major work The Punishment and Prevention of Crime was published in 1885.
- Writers:
- Erickson, Dorothy (Dr)
- Date written:
- 2011
- Last updated:
- 2011
