Commander Charles Robert Tylden RN Russell b. c.1845

Also known as Commander Charles Robert Tylden RN Russell, Captain None Russell
  • Artist (Painter)
Commander in the Royal Navy and painter of seascapes who came to Western Australia and became harbour master at Fremantle.
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Royal Navy commander, Harbour Master and painter of seascapes. Captain Russell had been a commander in the Royal Navy but on his marriage to Miss Cecelia Hutton-Potts took up farming in Sussex to please his father-in-law. This did not appeal and he accepted the position of Harbour Master at Fremantle. They arrived in Western Australia on the Elderslie where he took charge of the Harbour and Lights Department from 1886-1902. His daughter Susan (Dolly) married architect Charles Lancelot Oldham, father of John Oldham. Russell retired to Minehead in Cornwall, England and died in 1918.



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

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