Henry Willey Reveley
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| Birth: | 1788 |
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| Death: | 1875 |
| Authority control: | Wikidata: Q5730184 |
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Henry Willey Reveley (1788-1875) arrived in 1829 on the [[../ships/parmelia.html|Parmelia]], James Stirling having appointed him Civil Engineer during his stay at the Cape Colony on the way to the Swan River in that ship. Reveley held that office 1829-1838, being responsible for all public works, which included designing the [[../buildings/roundhouse.html|Round House]] (1831), the first [[../buildings/courthouse.html|Court House]] on Arthur Head, and the [[../buildings/whalerstunnel.html|Whalers Tunnel]] (1838) underneath it. He also built and ran Perth's first [[../buildings/millsperth.html|mill]].
Reveley also designed the 1836 Court House in Perth (completed December - the second oldest building in the state still extant), the 1829 Barracks in Barrack St, and the second [[../buildings/govthouse.html|Government House]] (1834).
He was a friend of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley whom he saved from drowning in the Arno in 1821.
He married Amelia Cleobulina Fielding, who was an artist, and left a painting of the (second) Government House that her husband designed. (See O'Brien: 304-5.)
References and Links
Bekle H. & J. Gentilli 1993, [[../earlydays/10/bekle.html|'History of the Perth lakes']], Early Days, vol. 10, part 5: 442-460.
Hasluck, Paul & F.I. Bray 1927, [[../earlydays/1/hasluck4.html|'Early mills of Perth']], Early Days, vol. 1, part 8: 62-84.
O'Brien, Philippa 2023, No Stone without a Name: A Visual History of Possession and Dispossession in Australia's West, Ellenbook Cultural Foundation: esp. 252-3.
Oldham, Ray, bio in the ADB.
Reece, Bob 2013, 'Henry Willey Reveley: Swan River Colony's first architect', Early Days, Vol. 14, Pt. 2: 195-219.
Reece, Bob 2014, 'Too much for round here', Fremantle Herald, 21 Feb 2014. [on the Round House]
Webb, David & David Warren 2005, Fremantle: Beyond the Round House, Longley, Fremantle: 8-9
White, John 1976, [[../earlydays/7/white.html|'Henry Reveley, architect and engineer']], Early Days, Volume 7, Part 8: 24-42.
There was an image on this page supposedly of Henry Reveley. It now seems it is a drawing of Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, whose father's middle name was Reveley. I blame Google :)
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