Robert Charles Dudley (1826 – 28 April 1909)[1] was a British watercolourist and lithographer.[2]

Robert Charles Dudley
Landing of the Transatlantic telegraph cable of 1866, Heart's Content, Newfoundland, by Robert Charles Dudley, 1866.

Life

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Dudley was born in 1826 and his father was Charles Stokes Dudley,[2] his grandfather was Irish and his grandmother was the Quaker minister Mary Dudley.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ "History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - Robert Dudley".
  2. ^ a b "Robert Dudley: artist, illustrator, and book cover designer". www.victorianweb.org. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  3. ^ "Dudley [née Stokes], Mary (1750–1823), Quaker minister". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58269. Retrieved 5 November 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)