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4 unusual facts about Charles Henry Chomley


Charles Henry Chomley

During this time, Chomley’s London home in Ladbroke Gardens became a social hub for his fellow Antipodeans; as Brenda Niall writes in her biography of the Boyd family, Chomley’s restless temper and radical ideas fostered an environment in which topics of any manner could be discussed.

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Sir William à Beckett (1806–1869) worked as a solicitor, barrister, judge, and eventually Chief Justice.

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Eliza à Beckett sailed with her father and family from London, arriving on HMS Andromache to Port Adelaide in December 1850.

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The family member with whom Chomley would share the strongest correlation, however, was Sir William à Beckett.



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