sketcher, military officer and governor, was born on 19 February 1809 at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, eldest son of Major-General Henry Charles Darling and his wife, Isabella. Charles came to New South Wales in 1826 with the 57th Regiment and served, with Henry Dumaresq, as private secretary to his uncle, Governor Ralph Darling. He left Australia with the Darlings in 1831. After posts in Jamaica, Cape Colony and Newfoundland he returned to take up the governorship of Victoria, but resigned from the colonial service in 1867 after some fiery battles with former cabinet ministers and returned to England. Sir Charles Darling died on 25 January 1870 at Cheltenham, survived by his third wife, Elizabeth née Salter, a daughter and four sons.
A pen-and-ink sketch initialled C.H.D., drawn in Sydney in 1830, has been attributed to him. Titled View from the South Side of Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney, showing Hyde Park Barracks, St James [Church] and Sydney Hospital, it is now in the Mitchell Library.
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