Lord Henry Douglas Scott-Montagu Sketchbook
Collection
Nine sketches in pencil and watercolour by Henry John Douglas-Scott-Montagu (later Baron Montagu of Beaulieu) or Lord Henry Scott as he was generally known. The sketches include views of Kangaroo Point (Brisbane), the Glasshouse Mountains, the Brisbane River, North Brisbane and Peak Mountains. Three further sketches include a portrait of one Commissioner Yeh, a view from Platte near Wiesbaden on the Rhine, Germany and an unidentified South African landscape. Most sketches with a caption in pencil or pen. All sketches with a caption in pen on the board.
Leaving Sydney, Lord Henry and his group rode to Brisbane, staying en route at Newcastle and at several country inns and pastoral properties. From Ipswich they travelled to Brisbane by paddle-steamer arriving on 5 July 1853. While in Brisbane, Lord Henry visited Newstead House, the German mission at Nundah and went on small expeditions to the Nerang River and the Moreton Bay islands, sketching landscapes and collecting fossils, ferns and shells. After leaving Brisbane on 12 September 1853, Lord Henry returned to England but continued his travels until 1861. From 1861 to 1884 he served as a Conservative Member of Parliament. He was married to Cecily Susan Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie in London on 4 August 1865. Raised to peerage on 26 December 1885 when he was granted the title of first Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, he took his seat in the House of Lords. He died at Palace House, Beaulieu on 4 November 1905.
Out of copyright.