Title

Mr. Warwick Weston Pett.

Author

Table Talk.

Details

Table Talk, 9 August 1889, page 5, column 3.

Publication date

9 August 1889

Type

Obituary

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Mr. Warwick Weston Pett,
well-known in connection with several Illustrated
papers, died on July 17. Mr. Pett, who was the hus-
band of Madame Victorine Pett at one time a popular
pianiste, and brother of Mr. H. B. Pett, of Burrows
was born near London on July 11, 1828, and
was a colonist of thirty five years' standing.
Prior to his arrival in Victoria he was engaged as an
artist on the Illustrated London News. In Melbourne
he was on the staff of the Melbourne Punch in its
palmy days, the Sketcher and the Australian News
until his retirement from work, a few years ago.
Mr. Pett was a particularly literary man and has left
a fine collection of valuable classical works, some of
which cannot now be purchased, He had a very re-
fined taste for high art, and classical music, and was of
a retiring disposition although endowed by nature with
great capabilities and gifts. Mr. Pett’s illness was of
short duration, commencing with a gathered finger,
which ultimately developed into erysipelas, causing
his death, Madame Victorine Pett, who has retired
from the musical profession for some years, has sur-
vived her husband, also a married daughter - Madame
Busst, a single daughter, and two sons, one of whom, 
Mr. Alfred Weston Pett, now In Tasmania, possesses a
good tenor voice and is conductor of some of the
musical societies of that island.

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