English-born photographer and cinematographer Henry William Mobsby came to Queensland in 1883 with the landscape artist Isaac Walter Jenner, whose daughter, Mary Ellen, he later married. Mobsby had studied art and design at the South Kensington School of Arts and at the School of Art, Brighton. On his arrival in Brisbane, Mobsby became an instructor in Decoration and Photography at Brisbane Technical College before being appointed artist and photographer with the Department of Agriculture and Stock in 1897. In 1899, he was appointed to the Chief Secretary’s Department as assistant to Frederick Charles Wills (1870-1955). Mobsby’s photography gained international distinction and he officially represented Queensland at several international exhibitions between 1908 and 1926. Mobsby gave many lantern slide lectures on Queensland, its history, products, scenery, buildings and also made a number of radio broadcasts in the 1920s. He retired in 1930, and died on 9 Apr 1933. He is buried in Toowong Cemetery.