NORRIS
,
CHARLES
(
1779
-
1858
),
artist
;
b.
24 Aug. 1779
, second son of
John
Norris
, a wealthy
London
merchant
, by his wife
Catherine
(
Lynch
)
, the divorced wife of
Henry
Knight
of
Tythegston, Glam.
(see the article on
H. H.
Knight
). Though not a
Welshman
by birth,
Norris
lived and worked in
Wales
for nearly sixty years. He settled in
1800
at
Milford
, but removed in
1810
to
Tenby
, where he d.
16 Oct. 1858
. The great majority of his pictures are concerned with
S. Davids
and
Pembroke
and
Tenby
, and he published a book,
A Historical Account of Tenby
, in
1818
(2nd ed.
1820
). He was a ‘character,’ and
Edward
Laws
(q.v.)
has a lively article upon him in
Arch. Camb.
,
1891
(the source of the
D.N.B.
article).
Bibliography:
-
See also
A. L. Leach
,
Charles Norris, 1779-1858, of Tenby and
Waterwynch, topographical artist
, Denbigh, 1949
(Tenby,
1949
), which has a list of his pictures. There are several examples of his work in the N.L.W.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
