Charles Murray Padday

[9] On arrival in Ellis Island he reported that he had paid his own passage and that he had previously visited the United States in 1895.

He married Irishwoman Rose Blanche Newman (1873-1966) on 19 December 1903 at All Saints Church in Knightsbridge.

His first marriage did not last and he filed for divorce on 7 February 1918, stating that Rose had deserted him over two years previously.

Padday travelled with Rose to nearly every corner of the globe and painted scenes in every country he visited.

He painted coastal views and harbors, including Mediterranean scenes such as The Harbour at Bougie, Algeria.

Mr. Padday's picture seems as literal a presentment of actual fact, so good in character and action are the figures, so finely suggested is the heated atmosphere of the torrid isle on whose strand these three men have been left to live or perish as Fate may will.

The Field's yachting correspondent noted of one nautical painting that it was well composed and correct in technical detail, whilst there is a clever effect of clearing rain in the picture.

He also illustrated many books including works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy F. Westerman, F. S. Brereton, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, H. Taprell Dorling, Harry Collingwood, Lord Charles Beresford, T. T. Jeans, and others.

[12][20] The painting, said to be worth several hundred pounds was hanging there twenty years later, and they were still selling prints to support the institute.

[23] Bertha Jane survived him by five years, dying in Torquay, Devon on 13 September 1960, and leaving an estate valued at £728,192 9s 9d.