Pattterdale, the Deddington grazing property once owned by colonial artist John Glover,  sold for more than $4.5 million, but the identity of the new owner has been a closely guarded secret.

Bacchus tells me Rodney was nicely cashed up, having already sold land he owned on Flinders Island.

My good friend Bacchus No-Smoke was enjoying a Scotch at the Athenaeum Club in Hobart where he heard that the new owner of Patterdale is Launceston eye surgeon Rodney Westmore.