Robert Roulston

  • Artist (Photographer)
Travelling photographer Robert Roulston was fined for the illegal sale of liquor at Donnybrook, Victoria.
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travelling photographer, prison warder and sly-grog vendor, was fined £5 for the illegal sale of liquor at Donnybrook, Victoria. In July 1870 a warrant was issued for his arrest due to the non-payment of this fine. The Victoria Police Gazette described him as: 'Irish, formerly a warder at Pentridge, afterwards a travelling photographer, aged about 40, five feet seven inches high [170 cm], medium build, light-brown hair whiskers and moustache, smart and active appearance, generally wears grey tweed trousers and dark sac-coat’.

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Writers:
Harris, Helen Doxford
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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Other occupations
  • sly-grog vendor (ANZSIC code: 4310)
  • prison warder (ANZSIC code: 7714)
  • sly-grog vendor
  • prison warder (ANZSIC code: 7714)