2-979-042 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Testimonial presented to Capt. Fitzgerald, Ex-Governor of Western Australia, 1857. Candelabrum made by 'Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, of New Bond-street'...The inscription upon the base of the subjoined candelabrum will tell everything which its pictorial representative has left unsaid: Presented to Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., R.N. [Royal Navy], by a portion of the Colonists of Western Australia, as a tribute of their esteem and respect, and in grateful acknowledgment of his zealous and upright exertions in promoting the interests of the Colony during a period of seven years' administration of the Government. August 18th, 1855'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857. Fitzgerald, Ex-Governor of Western Australia