| Dates: | 1813, 27 November - 1887, 26 February | | Died: | England, Gloucestershire, Norton Court |
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John Falconer, British Library
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia |
Amateur, India.
Madras Medical Service. Assistant Surgeon, 4.4.1837; Surgeon, 15 Dec 1853; Surgeon Major, 13.1.1860; Deputy Inspector General, 28.2.1866; retired, 28.2.1867.
In the Madras Exhibition of 1855, ‘Dr Pritchard exhibits some good views on a smaller scale of the pagoda at Woontimettah. The old palace and some tombs at Golcondah and Hyderabad. The jury considers these worthy of honorable mention - as very fair specimens of the paper process’[1]
In c. 1858 he photographed General Marcus Beresford: ‘Dr Pritchard is a very good photographer and I sat for him more than once. I paste in on the opposite side the result of one attempt.’[2]
Footnotes
- Λ Madras Exhibition of raw products, arts, and manufactures of Southern India, 1855. Reports by the Juries (Athenaeum Press, Madras), p. 134.
- Λ Journal of General Marcus Beresford, British Library, OIOC Mss Eur C72, pp. 678-9.
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