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sketcher and public servant, was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, son of Samuel Huyghue, a French Canadian. Samuel junior arrived aboard the Lady Peel on 4 February 1852 to join the Victorian gold-rush. In 1853 he became clerk of the Office of Mines at Ballarat, in 1862 collector of imposts, and in 1872 clerk of Petty Sessions at Graytown. He retired in 1874 to live in Melbourne where he died, unmarried, on 24 July 1891.

During the 1850s S.T. Gill lithographed a letterhead after Huyghue’s sketch of an Extraordinary Carving Found at Creswick’s Creek, Sixty Feet Six Inches below the Surface . Huyghue was in Ballarat at the time of the Eureka uprising and sketched The Government Camp, Ballarat, 1854. Troops Arriving from Melbourne , published as a lithograph by F.W. Niven . Many years later he made a large chalk and watercolour drawing titled Eureka Stockade (1882, BFAG) which vividly records the final confrontation between the miners and the mounted troops. His Eureka sketches were used for a series of wood-engravings prepared by 'A.C.’ (possibly Albert Cooke ) to illustrate the revised edition of W.B. Withers’s History of Ballarat (1887).

Writers:

Staff Writer

Date written:

1992

Last updated:

2011