Thomas Urquhart b. 1824

Also known as Sir Thomas Urquhart, Captain Urquhart
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Thomas Urquhart was a colonial era Victorian caricaturist, army officer(?) and remittance man(?). He was exiled to Australia after he married Mary Norrie. His hobby was drawing and he drew comical caricatures of the local residents which were framed and given to them. Urquhart died aged 69 years.

Citations

  • Carmody, J. (1981), 'Early Days of the Upper Murray’, Wangaratta (VIC).

  • 'Burke’s Landed Gentry’, London, UK.

  • 'Victorian Death Index.’, Melbourne, VIC.

Initial data sources

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