George Fordyce Story b. 4 June 1800

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Medical practitioner, amateur photographer and botanist who arrived in Tasmania in the late 1820s to serve as a government surgeon at various locations. Story spent most of his time in Swansea where he took photographs now in the University of Tasmania collection. Two watercolours of natural history subjects, believed to have been painted by Story, are in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum an
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Name
George Fordyce Story
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • Botanist (ANZSIC code: 6910)
  • Surgeon (ANZSIC code: 8512) (Surgeon Tasmanian government.)
  • Medical practitioner (ANZSIC code: 8511)
Birth date
4 June 1800
Birth place
Carlisle, England, UK
Death date
7 June 1887
Death place
Swansea, Tas.
Burial place
Kelvedon, Swansea, Tas.
Active Period
  • c.1856 - c.1860
Arrival
  • c.1828 (Tasmania)
Residence
  • c.1860 - c.1887 Swansea, Tas.
  • c.1828 - c.1887 Van Diemen's Land, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
  • 1825 - 1828 London, England, UK
  • c.1821 - c.1824 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Training
  • c.1821 - c.1824 Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Marischal College, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870
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References [<ExternalResource: Maiden, J. H. (1909), 'Records of Tasmanian botanists', Hobart, Tas : Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for the year 1909, n.d.>, <ExternalResource: 'G.F. Story Papers', Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.>, <ExternalResource: Davies, A.; & Stanbury, P. (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900', Melbourne, Vic : Oxford University Press.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Glover, Margaret.>]