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Latitude
-42.8339024
Longitude
147.274444
Start Date
1839-01-01
End Date
1890-01-01

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ID
tb9695

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Birth Place
Glenorchy, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
Biography
sketcher and surveyor, was born at Glenorchy, Van Diemen’s Land, youngest son of George Hull, a civil servant, and his wife Anna. In 1862 he went to Maryborough, Queensland, as a surveyor under his brother-in-law W.M. Davidson (later surveyor-general). There he married Mary Anna Barns, the daughter of a local solicitor, in 1865. He was in the Kennedy district in 1870 and was surveying Cardwell in 1872 when he drew pencil views of the town. Another, taken on the Mackay River, features the shooting of a crocodile. In 1880 Hull returned to Tasmania, where he also sketched. Thirty competent pencil drawings of Queensland in 1872 and Tasmania in 1882 and one sketch taken in 1879 when his ship was moored at Eden, Twofold Bay, New South Wales, remain in the family. Some of Hull’s drawings were reproduced as lithographs in leading journals of the day, including the Australian Town and Country Journal and Queensland Punch . Hull died at Toowong, Brisbane, in 1890, aged fifty-one. This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography. Writers: Staff Writer Date written: 1992 Last updated: 2011
Born
b. 1839
Summary
Alfred Arthur Hull was a sketcher and surveyor. He was surveying Cardwell in 1872 when he drew pencil views of the town. Some of Hull's drawings are reproduced as lithographs in leading journals such as the Australian Town and Country Journal and Queensland Punch. Hull died in 1890.
Gender
Male
Died
1890
Age at death
51