Caroline Simpson Collection

Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, with an Irish wolfhound at Government House, Hobart, c1866 / Thomas Wingate (attrib.)

Wingate, Thomas, 1807-1869.

[c1866]

1 albumen photoprint: b & w ; 13.6 x 10.1 cm.

Identified in biro in twentieth century hand: Col Gore Browne. Two copies of this same image, reversed and in carte-de-visite format, are held in another album associated with Thomas and Eleanor Wingate.

governors
dogs
top hats
walking sticks
Government House (Hobart, Tas.)
Browne, Thomas Gore, Sir, 1807-1887.

Wingate album

This photographic print is pasted in on page 65 of a leather-bound folio album containing 62 sketches and watercolours and 33 early photographs, many signed by or attributable to Thomas Wingate (1807-69), former British army officer and second husband of Eleanor Terry nee Rouse (1813-1898).
The subject of the photograph, Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, was a soldier and colonial governor. After an unsuccessful term as governor of New Zealand from 1854-1861, he was in December 1861 appointed governor of Tasmania, returning to England with his wife in December 1868. He was appointed K.C.M.G. in June 1869 and was temporary administrator oi Bermuda 1870-1871. He died in London in April 1887. [ref: ADB]
Wingate and Gore Browne both served in the British Army in India: Wingate as a Lieutenant in the 2nd, or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot, took part in the opening campaigns of the First Anglo-Afghan War, the storming of the fortresses of Ghuznee (Ghazni) and Kelat (Qalat) in 1839; Gore Browne as a major in the 41st Regiment of Foot took part in the second campaign at Ghuznee and Cabool (Kabul) in 1842. [MM, June 2017]

The Miriam & Ian Hamilton Collection

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; CSL&RC PIC 2015/3: Wingate album

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