Travelling photographer, scene-painter, architect, showman and actor. Merlin created painted and photographic 'panoramas', and extensively photographed the houses and public buildings of many regional areas of New South Wales.
travelling photographer, scene-painter, architect, showman and actor, was born in England, son of Frederick Murlin, a chemist and salesman, and Ann Harriet, only daughter of Lieutenant Benjamin Beaufoy RN.
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