Charles Jeanneret (politician) Charles Jeanneret (politician) Charles Edward Jeanneret (9 February 1834 – 23 August 1898) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to dentist Henry Jeanneret and Harriet Merrett. As a boy he was sent to Flinders Island to learn navigation and seamanship, and after a trip to Europe and three years at the goldfields, he settled in Sydney around 1857. On 12 June 1857 he married Julia Bellingham, with whom he would have ten children. He worked for the Bank of New South Wales and lived at Hunters Hill, becoming a well-known local businessman, especially in the steam boat
Charles Reeves (architect) Charles Reeves (architect) Charles Reeves (1815 – 6 December 1866) was a British architect, particularly of police stations and county courts. Reeves was born in 1815 in Fordingbridge, Hampshire. He studied under Thomas Loader of Romsey in Hampshire, and Richard Suter (father of Richard George Suter) and Annesley Voysey of London. From 1843 he was architect and surveyor to the Metropolitan Police, designing and superintending forty-four new police stations. In 1847 he also became architect to the county courts in England and Wales, established the previous year; he designed and superintended sixty-four new courts across the country. He maintained a