Henry H. Glover

Henry Heath "Harry" Glover (ca.1810 – 2 March 1858)^[1] was an English artist who emigrated to South Australia in 1849. He is noted for producing what may have been the first lithographs in the young colony. His elder son Henry Heath Glover, Jnr had a career as artist and lithographer in Melbourne, Sydney, and Christchurch, New Zealand.

History

Harry arrived in Port Adelaide with his two sons Harry and Sydney on board the Calcutta on 23 June 1849. He took over the licence of the Stag Inn, corner of Rundle Street and East Terrace, on December 1849.^[2]

On the evening of Sunday 26 October 1851 a brawl broke out in the "Stag" between a bootmaker named Charles Grosse and a group of Irishmen, among them John Egan and John O'Dea. Glover and his sons ejected the Irishmen, but were assaulted with stones: Glover had his jaw broken and was rendered insensible. Sydney Glover fired a pistol, killing O'Dea. A trial for manslaughter failed to convict him.^[3] He relinquished his hotel licence in December 1851;^[4] He suffered ill-health for a number of years and died at his home on North Terrace, Adelaide.

Works

• The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra has his portrait of William Baker Ashton, first governor of the Adelaide Gaol, produced ca.1849.^[5]
• The State Library has several lithographs depicting William Baker Ashton and staff members of Adelaide Gaol; the same institution where his sons were incarcerated while awaiting trial in 1851.

• Crawford's Brewery, Hindmarsh 1849 lithograph
• Ashton ca.1850 pen and ink drawing
• Ashton ca.1850 watercolor
• Ashton, his son and Adelaide Gaol staff ca.1850 watercolor
• Norfolk Arms Hotel 1854 sketch
• Port Railway Bridge over River Torrens 1856 sketch

• The Art Gallery of South Australia holds The Black Swan Yard produced ca.1857.^[6]

Family

Glover and his wife, née Gerrard, had two sons, who arrived in Adelaide on the Calcutta in 1849:

• Henry Heath Glover, Jnr (ca.24 May 1827 – 15 June 1904) was also a lithographic artist.^[7] He left for the goldfields in the early 1850s and married Johanna Farrell (ca.1835 – 10 October 1871)^[8] at Tamworth, New South Wales around 1856;^[9] two young children died of scarlatina in 1860, when living at Carlton, Victoria. On 10 March 1873, in St Leonards, New South Wales, he married Jane Elizabeth Clift (ca.1850 – 8 October 1936).^[10] They had five children: George, Arthur, Ann, Maud and Caroline.^[11] He had a significant career as an artist – see main article.

• Sydney George Glover (ca.1828 – 6 January 1908) married Martha Manning Burchell^[12] (ca.1841 – 9 July 1909); they lived at Magill Road, North Norwood.

References

1. "Family Notices.". South Australian Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 6 March 1858. p. 2. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
2. "Law and Police Courts". South Australian Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 12 December 1849. p. 4. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
3. "Law and Police Courts". Adelaide Observer (SA: National Library of Australia). 6 December 1851. p. 7. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
4. "Bench of Magistrates". Adelaide Observer (SA: National Library of Australia). 13 December 1851. p. 7. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
5. "William Baker Ashton, First Governor of Adelaide Gaol, c. 1849". National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
6. "The Black Swan Yard". Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
7. "Boughs from the Bush". The Worker (Wagga, NSW: National Library of Australia). 2 July 1904. p. 3. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
8. "Family Notices.". The Sydney Morning Herald (National Library of Australia). 11 October 1871. p. 1. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
9. Darragh, Thomas A. "Henry Glover Junior". Design and Art of Australia Online. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
10. "Family Notices.". The Evening News (Sydney: National Library of Australia). 17 March 1873. p. 2. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
11. "Family Notices.". The Sydney Morning Herald (National Library of Australia). 9 October 1936. p. 10. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
12. "Family Notices.". The Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 29 September 1902. p. 4. Retrieved 19 February 2015.