George Fawcett Rowe

George Curtis Fawcett Rowe (24 July 1832 where Rowe was educated. Rowe Sr traveled to Australia in 1852, continuing to the Ballarat and Bendigo Goldfields region of Victoria, where he made a good living selling paintings to gold diggers who had become suddenly wealthy. He returned to England in 1859.

Australia and New Zealand Rowe may have accompanied his father to Australia in 1852; other references have him joining him there in November 1853. He was also a capable artist, signing his work "George Fawcett" to distinguish it from his father's. in 1854, first as a painter, then as an actor, playing Jeremy Diddler in Raising the Wind. In February 1856 he became a scene designer for Henry Coleman's Criterion Theatre, next door to Cairncross's.

He returned to Melbourne in 1856 and soon had a success in The Death of Marlowe, by Richard Henry Horne. He became manager of the Theatre Royal together with Henry Edmunds. He then joined John Black's company at the Princess's Theatre, He was praised in 1857 in the role of Percy Ardent in Boucicault's Irish Heiress.

Between 1859 and 1863 he was almost exclusively attached to the Princess's Theatre, as actor, manager and dramatist, writing numerous Victorian burlesques, pantomimes and other pieces. In 1862 he first produced his own stage version of David Copperfield, in which he took the role of Wilkins Micawber; he reproduced this piece numerous times, interpreting and playing the character of Micawber so effectively that in later years theatre managers could not imagine him in any other part, to the detriment of his career.

He left for New Zealand in December 1863, leaving the unprofitable Princess's Theatre vacant for several weeks. In July 1865 Rowe and Mr and Mrs Charles Dillon left New Zealand for Callao, Peru, and then appeared at the Teatro Segura opera house in Lima.

Later career

He then continued to New York where, on 26 February 1866 he appeared at the Olympic Theatre, under the management of Mrs. John Wood, playing Sir Charles Coldstream in Used Up, adapted by Charles Mathews from Boucicault's translation of the French comédie en vaudeville L'homme blasé by Duvert and Vauxroussel. Whereas he had appeared as George Fawcett in Australia, he now used his surname, Rowe, on stage. He produced his own plays, Geneva Cross and Brass.

Rowe worked in America for most of the 1870s and 1880s. Nevertheless, he has been considered, along with W. M. Akhurst, to be one of Australia's foremost dramatists of the 1850s and 1860s. Sandford Fawcett Rowe in New Zealand, died in Hokitika. Charles Fawcett Rowe was a storekeeper in Queensland.

Both Tom and Sandford had stage careers in Australia.