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Samuel Douglas Smith Huyghue

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Latitude
46.5036807
Longitude
-63.59541097
Start Date
1815-01-01
End Date
1815-01-01

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tba8be

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DAAO URL
https://www.daao.org.au/bio/samuel-douglas-smith-huyghue
Birth Place
Prince Edward Island, Canada
Biography
sketcher and public servant, was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, son of Samuel Huyghue, a French Canadian. Samuel junior arrived aboard the Lady Peel on 4 February 1852 to join the Victorian gold-rush. In 1853 he became clerk of the Office of Mines at Ballarat, in 1862 collector of imposts, and in 1872 clerk of Petty Sessions at Graytown. He retired in 1874 to live in Melbourne where he died, unmarried, on 24 July 1891. During the 1850s S.T. Gill lithographed a letterhead after Huyghue’s sketch of an Extraordinary Carving Found at Creswick’s Creek, Sixty Feet Six Inches below the Surface . Huyghue was in Ballarat at the time of the Eureka uprising and sketched The Government Camp, Ballarat, 1854. Troops Arriving from Melbourne , published as a lithograph by F.W. Niven . Many years later he made a large chalk and watercolour drawing titled Eureka Stockade (1882, BFAG) which vividly records the final confrontation between the miners and the mounted troops. His Eureka sketches were used for a series of wood-engravings prepared by 'A.C.’ (possibly Albert Cooke ) to illustrate the revised edition of W.B. Withers’s History of Ballarat (1887). Writers: Staff Writer Date written: 1992 Last updated: 2011
Born
b. 1815
Summary
Samuel Douglas Smith Huyghue was a sketcher and public servant. His watercolour drawing titled 'Eureka Stockade' is held at Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, in Victoria.
Gender
Male
Died
24 July 1891
Age at death
76