Henry Hammond Tilbrook

Place: Oswestry

Born: 1848

Death: 1937

Biography:

Henry Hammond Tilbrook was born in Oswestry, Shropshire, in 1848 and arrived in South Australia with his parents on the Albemarle in 1854. He was an adventurous young man who worked on sheep stations and other newspapers before founding the Northern Argus in Clare, SA. He later became a landscape photographer, inventor, and traveller, and co-founded the Northern Argus newspaper in the Clare region of South Australia. He died in 1937.