George Henry Haydon b. 26 August 1822

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Illustrator, cartoonist and writer, spent five years in Victoria, 1840-45. He left a pictorial record, sometimes comic, of the early settlement and Aboriginal life in Port Phillip.
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Name
George Henry Haydon
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Other Occupation
  • Lawyer (ANZSIC code: 6931)
  • Hospital administration (ANZSIC code: 8401)
  • Architect (ANZSIC code: 6921)
  • Writer (ANZSIC code: 9002)
  • Cartoonist (ANZSIC code: 9002)
  • Illustrator (ANZSIC code: 6924)
Birth date
26 August 1822
Birth place
Heavitree, Devon, England, UK
Death date
9 November 1891
Death place
Putney Lower Common , England, UK, 'Ettrick', Putney Lower Common (Greater London), England, UK
Death note
Ettrick'
Active Period
  • 1849 - 1859
  • c.1844
  • c.1840 - c.1845
  • c.1837 - c.1839
Arrival
  • 1840 (At Port Phillip, Melbourne, aboard the 'Theresa'.)
Residence
  • Putney Lower Common , England, UK, 'Ettrick', Putney Lower Common (Greater London), England, UK
  • c.1840 - c.1843 Melbourne, Vic.
  • c.1843 - c.1845 Gippsland, Victoria
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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References [<ExternalResource: (1868), 'The Surprising Adventures of Three Men', privately printed, Illustrated by Haydon, George Henry.>, <ExternalResource: Lockwood, Julia (Lady) (1860), 'Instinct or Reason', Illustrated by George Henry Haydon.>, <ExternalResource: Arden, George, 'Latest Information with regard to Australia Felix'.>, <ExternalResource: Gunson, N. (1972), 'George Henry Haydon', Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 4, Pike, Douglas (ed.), Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Buscombe, E. (1978), 'Artists in Early Australia and Their Portraits', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Heddle, E. & Millington, I. (1962), 'How Australian Literature Grew', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Layard, G. (1892), 'The Life and Letters of Charles Samuel Keene', London, England.>, <ExternalResource: Spielmann, M. (1895), 'The History of 'Punch'', London, England.>, <ExternalResource: Greig, A. (1927), 'Letters from Australian pioneers', Victorian Historical Magazine, (12).>, <ExternalResource: (27 May 1884), Melbourne, Vic.: Herald.>, <ExternalResource: 'G. Haydon Australian diaries and sketches 1840-45', National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (microfilm).>, <ExternalResource: Haydon, H. (Mrs), 'Personal communications and manuscript biography of G.H. Haydon', Kingsgate Castle, Kent, England (manuscript).>, <ExternalResource: (10 July 1875), Australian Sketcher.>, <ExternalResource: Haydon, George Henry (1846), 'Five Years' Experience in Australia Felix', Exeter and London, England.>, <ExternalResource: Haydon, George Henry (1854), 'The Australian Emigrant, a Rambling Story Containing as much Fact as Fiction', London, England.>, <ExternalResource: Gunson, N. (1968), 'The Good Country: Cranbourne Shire', Melbourne, Vic.>] [<ExternalResource: (1868), 'The Surprising Adventures of Three Men', privately printed, Illustrated by Haydon, George Henry.>, <ExternalResource: Lockwood, Julia (Lady) (1860), 'Instinct or Reason', Illustrated by George Henry Haydon.>, <ExternalResource: Arden, George, 'Latest Information with regard to Australia Felix'.>]