Benjamin smythe biography

drawing teacher, surveyor and squatter, was the sixth and youngest child of Benjamin Smythe, surveyor and civil engineer, and his wife, Annie, from Liverpool, Lancashire.

Henry arrived at Launceston, Van Diemen’s Land on board the Kate with his parents and sisters, on 3 March 1831. They had come from the Swan River settlement (Western Australia) where his father had been employed as surveyor to Thomas Peel but, never having been paid a salary, arrived destitute and without Henry’s older brothers, who remained in Western Australia to work off the debts.

Benjamin smythe biography

Henry and his father set up in Cameron Street, Launceston, as 'Land Surveyors, Civil Engineers, Architects and General Measurers’. For a time both were teachers too, Benjamin conducting a school while Henry advertised 'lessons in drawing’ at Launceston in April 1834.

Since Henry was simultaneously announcing the continuation of his surveying and planning business, now an independent enterprise located in Bris