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Samuel Calvert Samuel Calvert i(A46233 works by)
Also writes as: S. C.
Born: Established: 21 Nov 1828 Brixton, Devon (County),
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 1 Jan 1913 Crowthorne, Berkshire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 9 Nov 1848
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1 y separately published work icon A Memoir of Edward Calvert, Artist, by His Third Son : Illustrated with Reproductions from His Own Paintings and Sketches Samuel Calvert , London : Sampson Low , 1893 Z803841 1893 single work biography
1 1 Confessed at Last George A. Walstab , 1868 single work novella

'At 28 Disney Vernon is a 'bad lot'. Dying of consumption he has married the clergyman's daughter whom he seduced and asks his estranged brother, Charles, to care for her after his death, especially as she is pregnant. She bears a daughter and Disney disappears. He is feared murdered by William Mostyn, the husband of Disney's one true love who died leaving a son. Disney's wife dies of grief and the story turns to the children's lives, 18 years later, in the 1830s.

'Harry Mostyn and Isabel Vernon meet and fall in love but their relatives prevent the match. Walter Livingston, a one time friend of Disney Vernon, also loves Isabel. He befriends Harry, but determines that he shall never marry Isabel and is entangled in a plot with a mysterious Mr Anderson to ensure the young man's ruin. With the help of his father, his uncle and Isabel, Harry clears himself from their snares.

'Harry's hunt for the solution to Disney Vernon's murder takes him to Sydney in 1834 as aide de camp to Governor Bourke, and thence to New Zealand where he is involved in Maori skirmisheds, political bargaining and romantic tragedy. Once again he follows John Anderson to Europe where all is finally revealed.' (PB)
1 y separately published work icon Laughing a Crime, or, Twenty Pounds No Comedy : A Poem on the Malpractices of the Government and Its Emissaries on the Gold-Fields of Ballarat : With a Cursory View of Other Matters Relative Thereto A Gold-Digger , Melbourne : B. A. Hunter , 1853 Z1055871 1853 single work poetry
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