Caroline Simpson Collection

Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, c1865 / Chas. A. Woolley

Woolley, Charles Alfred, 1834-1922.

[c1865]

1 carte-de-visite : 10.4 x 6.4 cm.

Identified in pencil, in Thomas Wingate's hand on album page below image: Col. Gore Browne. Photographer's details printed on verso: Advance Tasmania / Chas. A. Woolley / 42 / Macquarie St / Hobart Town.

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Browne, Thomas Gore, Sir, 1807-1887.

CSL&RC PIC 2015/6: Eastwood album no.2

This photograph is one item within a small album containing 97 carte-de-visite photographs. The album appears to have been compiled by Thomas Wingate (1807-1869), sketcher, amateur photographer and army officer. Wingate's pencilled identifications appear on the album page below many of the photographs and the album includes a number of photographs taken by Wingate himself. The album also includes some photographs of Wingate's former fellow officers from the 2nd or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot in which Wingate served from 1835 to 1846, stationed from 1835 until 1842 in India.
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. Gore Browne, like Wingate, served in the British Army in India although not in the same regiment. Wingate served in the opening campaigns of the First Anglo-Afghan war in 1839 while Gore Browne, as a major in the 41st Regiment of Foot, took part in the second campaign in 1842. [MM, December 2017]

The Miriam & Ian Hamilton Collection

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; CSL&RC PIC 2015/6

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