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4 unusual facts about William Dexter


William Dexter

This apparently was not a success for they went to live at Stratford, Victoria, in 1856, and there made the acquaintance of Angus McMillan.

Dexter was at Bendigo in August 1853, where William Howitt heard him advocating republican doctrines at a meeting of diggers.

His wife came out from England at the end of 1854, and in March 1855 they together opened a gallery of arts and school of design in Bathurst Street, Sydney.

Dexter then studied at Paris, and returning to England, married Caroline née Harper at Nottingham in 1843.



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