Horatio Gordon Robley was a soldier, artist and macabre collector of Mokomokai and antiquities.
Robley was born at Funchal, Madeira onJune 1840, the son of Captain John Horatio Robley and Augusta June Penfold. Robley followed in his fathers footsteps and became a professional soldier. However he also inherited his mothers artistic skills and became an accomplished sketcher and watercolourist.
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