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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.

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

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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.

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



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