sketcher, naval officer and public servant, was born in London on 20 September 1806. Having trained at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth from 1819, Dashwood’s career included serving as lieutenant under Captain Fremantle on HMS Challenger . He was on board when the ship called at Fremantle, Western Australia, in September 1832. A pencil and watercolour sketch of Pakenham Street, Fremantle and a pencil and wash drawing, The Top of Pakenham Street, Fremantle, and Entrance of the River Swan , both date from the week’s visit. Surviving sketchbooks of 1830-34 contain pencil, ink and watercolour views of Hobart (?), Sydney, Tahiti, Rio de Janeiro and England.
Dashwood was promoted captain in December 1833. Due to ill health, he retired on half-pay in 1837. Although an Anglican, he married Sara Rebecca Loine in a Roman Catholic ceremony in London on 27 December 1839. In the early 1840s the Dashwoods and their two children sailed to Adelaide in the Orissa and settled near Echunga. Charles was a member of the Legislative Council of South Australia (1842-43 and 1852-55) and, variously, commissioner of police (1847-52), collector of customs and London emigration agent for South Australia. The year before his retirement in 1879 he was given the naval rank of commander 'by Admiralty indulgence’. He died on 15 March 1881.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
