A real Pratt

National Portrait Gallery
Nov 6 · 12 min read
Lady Barkly, 1863 by Batchelder & O’Neill, albumen silver carte de visite. Collection: National Portrait Gallery. Purchased 2014.

There was general rejoicing in the colony of Victoria when in mid-1860, Sir Henry Barkly GCMG KCB, the forty-five-year-old governor, married twenty-two-year-old Anne Maria Pratt, daughter of Major General Pratt, commander of the troops in the Australian colonies and New Zealand. The service, enacted at the raw, cramped Christ Church South Yarra, was discreet. The party comprised only the bride and…

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