Matthew Fortescue Moresby b. c.1828

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
sketcher, amateur photographer and clerk. Son of Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby.
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Citations

  • Beale, H. (1966), 'John Moresby’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, eds, vols 5, Melbourne.

  • Stephens, L. & Lee, S. (1885), 'Fairfax Moresby’, Dictionary of National Biographies, ed., 22 vols, London, England.

  • Davies, Alan & Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia – Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Belcher, D. (1871), 'The Mutineers of the Bounty and their Descendants in Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands’, New York, USA.

  • Denison, W. (1870), 'Varieties of Vice-Regal Life’, London, England.

  • Murray, T.B. (1859), 'Pitcairn – The Island the People and the Pastor’, London, England.

  • O’Byrne, W. (1849), 'A Naval Biographical Dictionary’, London, England.

  • Willis, A-M. (1988), 'Picturing Australia – A History of Photography’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1858), Magazine of Science and Art.

  • Information sourced from Groom, Barry.

  • Information sourced from Davies, Alan.

  • Information sourced from Wickman, Warren.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions

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  • Cooktown Museum, North Queensland (collected in)
  • University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Cooktown Museum, North Queensland (collected in)
  • University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)