James Robertson b. 1829

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James Robertson was a watercolourist and police magistrate. He came to New South Wales in 1842 with his father and at first did not seem to like the place much. He wrote to his brother in Scotland, "[It is] not a country but a wretched hole". He did, though, spend the rest of his life in Victoria.
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