Hugh McColl b. 22 January 1819

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Hugh McColl had a diverse CV that included working as a bookseller, as publisher and printer of two Melbourne papers, a stint as a manager of a mine and secretary to a scheme devised by the Grand Victorian North West Canal, Irrigation, Traffic and Motive Power Company. Despite its grandiose title and enthusiastic goal to irrigate 6 million acres in northern Victoria, the company only succeeded in

Citations

  • Yale, V. (1974), 'Hugh McColl’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne, Vic.

  • Cable, K.J. and Marchant, J.C. (1985), 'Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record’, (Series 2, 1842-1899, Volume 1), Sydney, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Thomson, J.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870