Frederick Richard Burke Scanlan b. 1815

  • Artist (Photographer)
Photographer who became a private in the Royal Artillery.

photographer, born in Ireland he became a private in the Royal Artillery and arrived in Western Australia on the Clara as a pensioner guard. In 1868 he was a sergeant at Perth Military Hospital and Clerk to the Commandant in 1874. He advertised as a photographer and jeweller in Fremantle in 1884, though the jeweller would have been his son Thomas Richard.


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Writers:
Dr Dorothy Erickson
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011