Samuel Bailey Dowsett b. c.1811

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Samuel Bailey Dowsett was a teacher, journalist and convict. He taught drawing in Hobart Town and later moved to Melbourne where he worked as a newspaper reporter. Dowsett died in 1885.

teacher, journalist and convict, was transported to Van Diemen’s Land. At the beginning of 1831 he advertised that drawing was taught at his Woodland House seminary in Hobart Town, re-opening on 31 January. Later he moved to Melbourne and worked as a newspaper reporter. On the night of 7-8 August 1885, Dowsett, 'one of the oldest pressmen in the colony’, died at his residence, Jesmond Place, in Bourke Street.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011