Samuel Hill b. c.1790

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Sketcher, naval officer, public servant and settler, Hill was born in England and lived in Van Diemen's Land from 1823 to 1846. He is thought to have been the first in the colony to use a camera obscura for drawing.
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George Thomas William Blamey Boyes
1786
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Henry Gritten
1818
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John Glover
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Lady Franklin
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Sir John Franklin
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