Samuel Knaggs

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Sketcher and surgeon, Knagg set up a medical surgery in Newcastle. Two engravings of shipwrecks after his drawings were reproduced in the Illustrated Sydney News in 1866.
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sketcher and surgeon, came to New South Wales from Ireland in about 1838 with his wife and son, Samuel Thomas Knaggs (1832-1921). The family settled at Newcastle, where Samuel opened a medical surgery. His son succeeded him in the practice in the 1870s. In 1866 the Illustrated Sydney News reproduced two engravings of shipwrecks after Dr Knaggs’s drawings: Wreck of the Coaling Brig Victor, at Newcastle and Position of Cawarra, previous to Foundering, as Seen from Nobby’s, 12th July .

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1992
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2011

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