Ancestry of Ian & Cath Jeanneret
HULL, Arthur Francis Bassett
1862 - 1945 (82 years)
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Name HULL, Arthur Francis Bassett [1] Born 10 Oct 1862 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 
Gender Male Died 22 Sep 1945 Manly, New South Wales, Australia Person ID I20377 My Genealogy Last Modified 16 Sep 2023
Father HULL, Hugh Munro, b. 19 Apr 1818, Romney Terrace, Westminster, London, England , d. 3 Apr 1882, Macquarie St, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (Age 63 years) Relationship natural Mother TREMLETT, Margaret Bassett, b. 5 Nov 1835, d. 2 Dec 1891 (Age 56 years) Relationship natural Married 3 Jan 1854 Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia Family ID F2172 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 NISBETT, Laura Blanche, b. 14 Apr 1867, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia , d. 1893, Annandale, New South Wales, Australia (Age 25 years) Married 29 Apr 1891 - Congregational Church, New Town, Tasmania
Children 1. HULL, Francis Bassett, b. 1893, Annandale, New South Wales, Australia , d. 1972, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia (Age 79 years) [natural]Last Modified 16 Sep 2023 Family ID F5490 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 CATER, Diana, b. 21 Mar 1870, Prahran, Victoria, Australia , d. 1948, New South Wales, Australia (Age 77 years) Married 3 Dec 1926 Manly, New South Wales, Australia Last Modified 16 Sep 2023 Family ID F5492 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 3 LLOYD, Carolyn Ann, b. Mar 1842, Bermondsey, Surrey, England , d. 21 May 1928, Annandale, New South Wales, Australia (Age ~ 86 years) Married 15 Jan 1902 Annandale, New South Wales, Australia Last Modified 16 Sep 2023 Family ID F5491 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - HULL, Arthur Francis Basset, M.B.E.
(1936). Ornithologist & Philatelist: son
of Hugh Munro Hull. Clerk of Assembly.
Tas.; b. Oct. 10. 1862. Hobart. Tas.;
ed. High Sch., Hobart; barrister at-
law; was Clerk in charge of Legal
Matters, Dept. of Mines. N.S.W .• 1903-21;
President of Royal Zoological Soc. of
N.S.W. 1917-19. & of Royal Australasian
Ornithologists' Union 1919 & 1920; member
of Council of Linnean Soc. of N.S.W.
& Pres. 1925; Hon. Ornithologist of the
Australian Museum; Hon. Fellow of Royal
Philatelic Soc. London; Fellow of American
Ornithologists' Union. & corresponding
member of Academy of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia; Hon. Pres. Sydney
Philatelic Club; publications. Stamps
of Tasmania 1890. Stamps of New South
Wales 1911. Stamps of Queensland 1930;
m. (1) 1891. Laura Blanch (died 1893). d.
Rev. J. Nisbet; (2) 1926. Diana. d. W.
W. Cater. 1 S.; recreations. ornithology,
conchology, philately; address, The
Eyrie, Queenscliff, Manly, N.S.W
Hull, Arthur Francis (1862–1945)
by Tess Kloot
This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, (MUP), 1983
Arthur Francis Basset Hull (1862-1945), public servant and naturalist, was born on 10 October 1862 at O'Brien's Bridge, Hobart Town, son of Hugh Munro Hull, coroner and later clerk of the House of Assembly, and his wife Margaret Basset, née Tremlett. Educated at the High School, Hobart, he was lamed by infantile paralysis at 15 and had to wear a surgical boot and use a walking-stick for the rest of his life.
In 1883-89 Hull was a clerk in the registry of the Supreme Court. Secretary and treasurer of the Orpheus Club in the 1880s, he performed as a tenor and in plays; he worshipped and sang at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church. He also tried his hand at short stories and verse in A Strange Experience (1888). At the Congregational Church, New Town, he married Laura Blanche Nisbet on 29 April 1891; she bore a son and died in 1893.
Hull moved to Sydney and on 12 October 1892 became a clerk in the General Post Office. On 1 July 1900 he transferred to the Department of Public Works as secretary to the labour commissioners. Sued for breach of promise of marriage by Bertha Cligny de Boissac in March 1899, Hull had been unable to pay £500 damages and was forced into bankruptcy. At Annandale on 15 January 1902 he married a 53-year-old widow Caroline Ann Lloyd, née Baker. He was discharged from bankruptcy in March and later visited Britain and Europe. On his return he joined the Department of Mines as a clerk in January 1903; he retired in 1921.
A keen amateur scientist, Hull was active as secretary for many years and president of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales in 1917-19, 1928-29 and 1938-39. He was a member of the Taronga Zoological Park Trust from 1926. He was also president of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union in 1919-20 and of the local Linnean Society in 1923-24 and published in their journals; he discovered the nest and eggs of the Gould Petrel Pterodroma (Oestrelata) leucoptera and in 1909 published an important work, 'Birds of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands', in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (vol. 34, 1909).
However Hull's greater interest was conchology, particularly loricates (Chitons). He pursued these around Australia, Santa Cruz and New Caledonia, becoming very agile over rocky terrain. With Tom Iredale he published a Monograph of Australian Loricates (1927) and other articles with Charles Hedley. His name was commemorated in the genus Bassethullia and several species. He gave a duplicate set of his specimens to the Australian Museum, Sydney, where he was honorary ornithologist in 1917-45.
From his boyhood Hull collected stamps and was an honorary fellow of the (Royal) Philatelic Society, London, from 1887. He published Stamps of Tasmania (London, 1890), The Postage Stamps … of New South Wales (London, 1911) and The Postage Stamps … of Queensland (1930). He contributed many articles on stamps, envelopes, wrappers, postcards and coins to journals, and edited the Australian Philatelist. In his later years he collected and annotated revenue stamps. He received many philatelic honours.
Short in stature with brilliant, piercing brown eyes, Hull was 'silver-haired … dapper in his grey suit' and 'crisp in manner'. Somewhat autocratic when dealing with committees, he was always kind to anyone willing to learn. Visitors to his home at Queenscliff, Sydney, remember his dining-room as a veritable museum holding collections of stamps, coins, eggs, skins, shells and books. His wife had divorced him in 1912; at Manly on 3 December 1926 he married a 56-year-old divorcee Diana Farley, née Cater. Survived by his third wife and son of his first marriage, Hull died on 22 September 1945 and was cremated with Anglican rites. His portrait, painted by W. Hayward Veal in 1941, is held by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.
HULL, ARTHUR FRANCIS BASSET (1862-1945), public servant, philatelist and naturalist, was born on 10 October 1862 at O’Brien’s Bridge, Hobart Town, son of Hugh Munro Hull, coroner and later clerk of the House of Assembly, and his wife Margaret Basset, née Tremlett. Educated at the High School, Hobart, he was lamed by infantile paralysis at 15 and had to wear a surgical boot and use a walking-stick for the rest of his life.
From his boyhood Hull collected stamps and was an honorary fellow of the (Royal) Philatelic Society, London, from 1887. He published Stamps of Tasmania (London, 1890), The Postage Stamps … of New South Wales (London, 1911) and The Postage Stamps … of Queensland (1930). He contributed many articles on stamps, envelopes, wrappers, postcards and coins to journals, and edited the Australian Philatelist. In his later years he collected and annotated revenue stamps. He received many philatelic honours.
In 1883-89 Hull was a clerk in the registry of the Tasmanian Supreme Court. Secretary and treasurer of the Orpheus Club in the 1880s, he performed as a tenor and in plays; he worshipped and sang at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. He also tried his hand at short stories and verse in “A Strange Experience” (1888).
At the Congregational Church, New Town, he married Laura Blanche Nisbet on 29 April 1891; she bore a son and died in 1893. Hull moved to Sydney and on 12 October 1892 became a clerk in the General Post Office. On 1 July 1900 he transferred to the Department of Public Works as secretary to the labour commissioners. Sued for breach of promise of marriage by Bertha Cligny de Boissac in March 1899, Hull had been unable to pay £500 damages and was forced into bankruptcy.
At Annandale on 15 January 1902 he married a 53-year-old widow Caroline Ann Lloyd, née Baker. He was discharged from bankruptcy in March and later visited Britain and Europe. On his return he joined the Department of Mines as a clerk in January 1903; he retired in 1921.
More about Hull’s achievements in Natural history at the Australian Biographical Dictionary online.
- HULL, Arthur Francis Basset, M.B.E.
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