Individual Details
Frederick Orme Darvall
(24 Feb 1816 - 10 Sep 1886)
After eight years in the Indian Service, and with a new wife, Frederick Orme Darvall sold his Commission and emigrated withthe rest of the family to New South Wales.
He subsequently held the post of Auditor-General for the new State of Queensland after separation from the State of New South Wales in 1859.
One of the stories that Frederick told concerned when he was a child of six at Brussels. He fell down the hotel stairs and was picked up by a gentleman who asked him questions and what was his name.The gentleman ended by saying that Frederick was to tell his father to write to him as soon as he, Frederick, was old enough, and he would give Frederick a commission in the Army. This gentleman was the Duke of Wellington. Major Edward Darvall did so write to the Duke of Wellington at the appropriate time, and the Duke kept his promise and arranged a Commission for Frederick.
For a contemporary description of theFrederick Orme Darvall, we must turn to the iconic Queensland history, ReginaldSpencer Browne A Journalists Memories (1927. Brisbane. Read Press):
“In the early eighties the Treasury officesoccupied part of the site of the present Treasury buildings...of the Treasurystaff (that I knew or remembered)...F. O. Darvall was a tall, florid, raw-bonedAustralian who was a good cricketer and a capital shot in the field with aspecial weakness for the rise of the snipe on the flats at Mayne in October orNovember. He left a considerable family of sons, one of whom, Major Darvall, ofthe Militia Artillery, married a Miss Morehead, but died young, as his fatherdid. Another son was Colonel "Joe" Darvall; another is a lawyer atBoonah, and another served in the Big War and has a rattling good position withone of the great engineering firms of the United Kingdom. I saw him last in St.Paul's, London, in 1917, with Cassidy of Dalgety's, and they were having alittle respite from the mud of Flanders and the attentions of the Hun...”
He subsequently held the post of Auditor-General for the new State of Queensland after separation from the State of New South Wales in 1859.
One of the stories that Frederick told concerned when he was a child of six at Brussels. He fell down the hotel stairs and was picked up by a gentleman who asked him questions and what was his name.The gentleman ended by saying that Frederick was to tell his father to write to him as soon as he, Frederick, was old enough, and he would give Frederick a commission in the Army. This gentleman was the Duke of Wellington. Major Edward Darvall did so write to the Duke of Wellington at the appropriate time, and the Duke kept his promise and arranged a Commission for Frederick.
For a contemporary description of theFrederick Orme Darvall, we must turn to the iconic Queensland history, ReginaldSpencer Browne A Journalists Memories (1927. Brisbane. Read Press):
“In the early eighties the Treasury officesoccupied part of the site of the present Treasury buildings...of the Treasurystaff (that I knew or remembered)...F. O. Darvall was a tall, florid, raw-bonedAustralian who was a good cricketer and a capital shot in the field with aspecial weakness for the rise of the snipe on the flats at Mayne in October orNovember. He left a considerable family of sons, one of whom, Major Darvall, ofthe Militia Artillery, married a Miss Morehead, but died young, as his fatherdid. Another son was Colonel "Joe" Darvall; another is a lawyer atBoonah, and another served in the Big War and has a rattling good position withone of the great engineering firms of the United Kingdom. I saw him last in St.Paul's, London, in 1917, with Cassidy of Dalgety's, and they were having alittle respite from the mud of Flanders and the attentions of the Hun...”
Events
| Birth | 24 Feb 1816 | York, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Christen | 27 Feb 1816 | Saint Michael-Le-Belfry, York, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Marriage | 9 Nov 1841 | Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia - Lucy Caroline Shapland |  | ||
| Death | 10 Sep 1886 | Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom |
Families
| Spouse | Lucy Caroline Shapland (1822 - ) |
| Child | Lucy Elizabeth Darvall (1843 - ) |
| Child | Frederick Orme Francis Darvall (1844 - 1886) |
| Child | Edith Flora Darvall (1844 - ) |
| Child | Emily Eunice Darvall ( - ) |
| Child | Ralph Shapland Darvall (1853 - ) |
| Father | Maj Edward Darvall (1776 - 1869) |
| Mother | Emily Godschall Johnson (1788 - 1841) |
| Sibling | Major Gen George Edward Darvall (1805 - 1886) |
| Sibling | John Bayley Darvall (1809 - 1883) |
| Sibling | Philip Richard Darvall (1812 - 1813) |
| Sibling | Ralph Francis Darvall (1814 - 1815) |
| Sibling | Emily Mary Darvall (1817 - 1909) |
| Sibling | Eliza Charlotte Darvall (1819 - 1909) |
| Sibling | Rosamond Mary Darvall (1822 - 1909) |
| Sibling | Alexina Ellen Darvall (1825 - ) |
| Sibling | William Horace Darvall (1828 - ) |