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Professor of anatomy at the University of Tasmania 1968

Architect

In 1947 the Lake St Clair Scenic Reserve was added to the Cradle Mountain Reserve to create a new National Park and a new Board was constituted to administer it.

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Daniel Ellis, trade quarry man and carter, was convicted in 1829 and transported to Van Diemens Land. In 1834 he was sentenced to a further 7 years at Port Arthur.

David Blair (1820-1899), journalist, was born on 4 June 1820 in County Monaghan, Ireland, son of Thomas Blair, soldier, and his wife Jane, née Burns, both of Scottish descent.
For more information see : http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/blair-david-3011

Born 27 January 1846 at Richmond Tasmania fifth child of George Marshall and Mary Palmer. Married Helen Pillans Jackson on 14th February 1884 at Ross. They had one child George Douglas Marshall. David Marshall died on the 16th September 1919 at Hobart and was buried in the Scots Uniting Church cemetery, Montague Street, Sorell

Mayor of Launceston 1974-1975

The Mercury began in 1853 when John Davies, a former convict, bought a Hobart newspaper, the Guardian, and the following year renamed it the Hobarton Mercury. It first appeared as a tri-weekly, and the Mercury has provided news for Hobartians ever since, with numerous changes: it took over five other newspapers; became a daily (1858); published subsidiaries, notably the Illustrated Tasmanian Mail (1877 - 1935), the Saturday Evening Mercury (1954 - 84) and the Sunday Tasmanian from 1984

Davies Brothers was taken over by News Limited in 1985, bringing to an end the newspaper business run by the Davies family since 1854. The Mercury will relocate from its original site in Macquarie Street, in August 2012. Its present art deco building dating from 1940 will be sold. http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/default.aspx?detail=1&type=A&id=NG00302

Historian and teacher, born in Peoria, Illinois, USA. He was a historian of India and the British Empire who pursued interests in the history of India's military. He grew up in various small towns in Illinois where his father was a Methodist minister. He received his bachelor's degree from Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa in 1945. He subsequently earned a
master's degree at Cornell University in 1952 and completed his PhD degree at Washington University in St. Louis in 1962. His dissertation was "Lord Milner's 'kindergarten', the British Round Table Group, and the Movement for Imperial Reform, 1910-1918." DeWitt taught briefly at Ohio University, Washington University in St. Louis and National College in Kansas City, but in 1962 he joined thefaculty of the State University of New York at Albany, where he would spend the rest of his career until retirement in 1992. He taught courses on British and Indian history. His research interests centered on aspects of the life and roles of Indian soldiers under the British and related subjects. He was a frequent participant in academic conferences; I beieve I first me him at an AAS conference in the late 1960s, and enjoyed his conversations at many meetings later. He had an interest and participation in a number of organizations focused upon social concerns including the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, and the Peace and Justice Committee of the Capital Area Council of Churches. He was a life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal/United Methodist Church and took great joy in singing in the choir at the McKownville Methodist Church. For more informations see:
Published in Albany Times Union from Apr. 1 to Apr. 2, 2012 https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesunion-albany/obituary.aspx?n=dewitt-ellinwood&pid=156790109

Born in Hanover, Germany, to Jewish parents, Borchardt escaped Nazism via Italy and emigrated to New Zealand. There he studied at Victoria University, Wellington, and graduated with a BA in 1944 and an MA in 1947. He gained a library diploma from the New Zealand Library School.
He was Acquisitions Librarian at the University of Otago Library in 1949 to 1950. He was appointed as deputy librarian (1950–52) and then chief librarian (1953–1965) at the University of Tasmania. He also tutored in modern languages at that university.
For more information see : http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/borchardt-dietrich-hans-16360

Dietrich Hans Borchardt was one of Australia’s most eminent librarians and bibliographers, with a reputation that extended overseas through his work in countries such as Indonesia, Turkey, New Zealand and the United States. For more information see http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/borchardt-dietrich-hans-16360

Donald George Rockcliff of Sassafras (d. 1981). He matriculated from Devonport State High School in 1926 and gained his B.Sc. in 1932 and B.E. in 1933. He was a member of the T.U. Rifle Club, shooting the fourth highest score in the Inter-Varsity match in 1932, for which he was awarded a full blue. He was also a member of the Combined Universities Rifle Team against Victoria in March 1932 and was thus one of the first entitled to wear ‘A.U.S.A.’ on his blazer badge. In 1934 he broke a record in the I.V. match in Hobart which Tasmania University Rifle Club won. For photographs of the T.U.R.C. teams see UT 367/1-7

Dorothy Mabel Ogilvie (nee Hines) was the wife of Albert George Ogilvie (1890–1939) was an Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania from 22 June 1934 until his sudden death on 10 June 1939. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ogilvie-albert-george-7889

Sir Douglas Mawson (5 May 1882–14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The Mawson Station in the Australian Antarctic Territory is named in his honour. For more information see http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mawson-sir-douglas-7531

Duncan Loane Pty., general merchants, was founded in Devonport in 1910 by Duncan Loane, formerly Devonport manager for A.G. Webster & sons. On his retirement in 1922 the firm was made into a proprietary company. Directors included W.H. Edwards, managing director, G.C. Walch, R.l.D. Loane etc. The firm dealt especially in farm machinery, holding a number of agencies for overseas firms, such as Ransome & Sims of England, as well as Australian firms, including water pumps by wind mill and electric or diesel rams. They also dealt in fertilisers, fencing wires, corn sacks, gates, etc. and act as agents for insurance.

For more information see https://librariestas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/tas/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fARCHIVES_AGENCIES$002f0$002fNG1031/one

Earnest Ewart Unwin (1881-1944) was Headmaster of Friends' School 1924-1944. Unwin was Quaker educationist, was born on 13 July 1881 at Folkestone, Kent, England, son of Uriah John Unwin, bricklayer, and his wife Sophia Jane, née Martin. He was educated at the Quaker schools of Saffron Walden and Ackworth, and graduated (B.Sc., 1901) at the University of Leeds. He taught at Ackworth in 1901-04, became a lecturer in science at the University of Leeds, gained his M.Sc. in 1908 and from 1908 to 1912 taught at Bootham School, York. On 7 April 1910 he married Ursula Dymond Thorp at The Friends' Meeting House, Carlton Hill, Leeds. In 1912 Unwin became senior science master at the Quaker school, Leighton Park, Reading; his first book, Pond Problems (Cambridge, 1914), was a science textbook for schools. As a conscientious objector during World War I, he was given leave to teach and published two more books, As a Man Thinketh (London, 1919) and Religion and Biology (London, 1922).

In 1923 Unwin answered what he felt was a 'call to service' in Australia by accepting the headmastership of the co-educational Friends' School in Hobart, a position which he was to hold until his death. The years 1923-44 witnessed major growth in the school. Unwin embarked on an ambitious rebuilding plan in which he enlisted substantial financial support from English Quakers. He brought a new dynamic of educational leadership to his school and to education in Tasmania, introducing new subjects of art, physiology and botany to the senior school curriculum, and giving priority to science in his building plans. A gifted water-colour artist and teacher of art, he was also a pioneer in the field of educational broadcasting. For more information see http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/unwin-ernest-ewart-8899

Ebenezer Shoobridge (1820-1901) purchased Bushy Park, an estate of some 2000 acres from Mr Humphry in 1865. He introduced hop growing (hops having been first introduced to Tasmania by his father William Shoobridge) and fruit orchards, principally apples. There was also a dairy farm and some grain and root crops. His eldest son William Ebenezer Shoobridge (1846-1940) pioneered irrigation, built hop kilns, cottages etc. and experimented with methods of pruning fruit trees, introducing the "pyramid principle" which allowed the sun to shine on all fruit equally. Both father and son were J.P.s and served on local councils and committees and supported the Wesleyan Church.

The Tasmanian Branch of the Economic Society of Australia was formed in November 1924 at a meeting convened by L.F. Giblin (Tasmanian Government Statistician) and J.B. Brigden (Chair of Economics at the University of Tasmania) and D.B Copland (the pioneer of Economics at the University of Tasmania and its previous chair). A week later the branch's constitution was adopted and the then Governor of Tasmania, Sir James O'Grady was elected as its president. For more information see http://esatas.org.au/about-us-item/16134/about-tas-esa

Edmund Alfred Elliott, born 12 September 1884 in Hobart, was the son of Robert Elliott and Sophia Hazell. After a number of years clerical work, Edmund enrolled at Sydney University, graduating in 1918 as a medical practitioner. He married Doris Merchant in Brisbane and they returned to Tasmania where Edmund took over Dr Gibson's practice in Macquarie Street, Hobart. Edmund and Doris had five children, one of whom, David Macmillan Elliott wrote a history of Edmund Alfred Elliott and the Elliot family. Edmund had a keen interest in the natural sciences and was a founding member of the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club in 1904. He died in 1968.

Edmund Leolin Piesse (1880-1947), foreign policy analyst and lawyer, was born on 26 July 1880 at New Town, Hobart, only son of Frederick William Piesse, conveyancer, and his wife Ellen, née Johnson. His father became a successful businessman and politician, resigning in 1901 as a Tasmanian minister to take his seat in the Federal parliament. After leaving the Friends' High School, Piesse graduated in Science from the University of Tasmania in 1900. He abandoned subsequent studies in mathematics at King's College, Cambridge, when obliged to return home following his father's death in 1902, but graduated in law in 1905. He never lost interest in the natural sciences and in 1912-14 was honorary secretary of the local Royal Society. For mmore information see: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/piesse-edmund-leolin-8046

Edmund Morris Miller (1881-1964) C.B.E., M.A., D.Litt. (Melb.) was a librarian in the Public Library of Victoria from 1900 until 1913 when he was appointed Lecturer in Mental and Moral Science in the University of Tasmania. He was made Assoc. Prof. in 1925 and Professor in 1928. From 1933 to 1945 he served as Vice-Chancellor and also was Honorary Librarian from 1919 until 1945.
For more information see http://www.utas.edu.au/library/exhibitions/morris_miller/index.html
and http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/miller-edmund-morris-7581

Lived at Swanston Street New Town. Formerly of St. Heliers, Jersey, Channel Islands (http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/64516621)

Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, was born in Dunbar in 1857 and came to Tasmania with his parents Edward Dobbie senior and his wife Kathryn while very young. He was educated partly at state schools in Tasmania and partly (amongst other private schools) at the Hutchins School in Hobart. After leaving school he followed a number of commercial pursuits until at the age of 21 he began the study of law. He was articled to a Tasmanian Solicitor, Mr. Charles Ball who was the principle of the legal firm, Messrs. Gill and Ball. Dobbie was admitted as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of Tasmania at Hobart in July 1882. He married Alice McMillan; they had six children, four daughters and two sons.
On the 25th of March 1887 he was appointed Crown Solicitor and Clerk of the Peace in succession to Mr. R. P. Adams who had then been appointed judge of the Supreme Court. Although at thirty years of age he was relatively young to hold the important office of Crown Solicitor, it was not altogether unusual to find young men holding such appointments in Tasmania which had a comparatively large public service serving only a small population during the nineteenth century.
In January, 1895 he became Secretary to the Law Department relinquishing the office of Crown Solicitor, but remaining as Clerk of the Peace, Hobart and Registrar of Building Societies. He retained these 3 offices until January 1899 when he was appointed Recorder and Commissioner in Bankruptcy, Launceston as well as Commissioner of the Court of Requests. Finally he reached the peak of his non-judicial legal career when he was appointed Solicitor General on the 25th of April 1902. He would continue to hold this office until eventually he was appointed an acting judge and later a judge in 1913-14.
Dobbie's career both as Solicitor-General and later as judge was relatively distinguished. The situations which confronted him as the senior legal representative of the government were often parochial matters, sometimes with varied legal importance. Not all of his cases provided sufficient scope for the exercise of his real legal talent. He had to wait until the arrival of federation before legal matters of real constitutional importance to the new State would present themselves.
Perhaps a highlight of Dobbie's career as Solicitor-General was his visit to the United Kingdom in 1904. This came about as a result of an appeal by the Van Diemen's Land Company against a decision of the Supreme Court of Tasmania. The company had brought an action of trespass against the Marine Board of Table Cape, a semi-government authority. The Supreme Court of Tasmania had failed to uphold the action. The Van Diemen's Land Company eventually appealed to the Privy Council in England and Dobbie, as Solicitor-General, was sent to London to present the case on behalf of the Marine Board and the state government.
During this period he wrote frequently to his wife in Hobart and these letters provide an interesting account of his activities while in a city, which at that time still exercised great influence over the activities of the embryo Australian States. He was in London for most of 1904 and quite clearly enjoyed the visit. He was a lover of the Arts and frequently visited the many attractions which were available in such an immense city. He was also vitally interested in the politics of the time, chiefly centring around the arguments of protection in trade advanced by Joseph Chamberlain of the Conservative Unionist Party and those of Free Trade supported by the English Liberal Party. Dobbie as might be expected, was a supporter of Free Trade and in fact, any other course would have been seriously damaging to the Australian States. Dobbie eventually lost his case before the Privy Council and of course the decision of the Tasmanian Supreme Court was reversed.
On 1st September 1913 Dobbie was appointed an acting puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania and this acting appointment was confirmed on 1st January 1914. Thus he began a very brief career as a judge which was to end untimely with his death on 23rd August 1915. In fact his period as a judge of the Supreme Court still remains the shortest career on record in Tasmania. Dobbie probably never reached the pinnacle of his legal career. His judgements, although generally sound would have improved with the depth of experience which he would have acquired as a judge during the course of time. Furthermore his work as a parliamentary draftsman during the early years of his legal career undoubtedly benefited him, because he was to show time and time again that he was a thorough man concerned with detail as much as the broad principles.

Edward Verrell was a photographer in Hobart, taking many photographs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, often printing scenic photographs as postcards. Verrell operated the Royal Studio at 95a Liverpool Street Hobart (1890-1908) and 115 Liverpool Street, Hobart (1909-1929).

Married Jane Caroline Chalmers and went to New Zealand in 1851 They had 13 children.
I. Edwin (1853-1885) married Ada Stewart Johnston

2. Mary (1855- )
3. Richard Reiby (1857 -1896) married Alice Theodora Lane
4. Clarence Kay (1858-1916) married Rosina Maria Kay
5. Rosina (1860- )
6. John Montague (1862- ) married Henrietta Letitia Hardy Johnstone
7. Clara (1865-1890 ) married Robert Heaton Rhodes
8. Elsie Emmeline (1867-1918) married George Harold Smith
9. Edith Dry (1870- ) married James John Mackersey
10. Jane Chalmers (1872- ) married James Brown Moodie
11. Gwendoline Meredyth (1876- ) married Thomas Henry Dawson
    I2 .Kathleen Meredyth (1879- ) married Alan Archbald Cameron
12. Melita Meredyth (1879~ ) marriedHerbert Sladden

Ransome was the convenor of the Contenental Committee of London General Meeting and regarded as one of the founders of the Friends School Hobart although he never visited Tasmania. He provided help and encouragement by means of massive personal correspondence with Friends in Hobart concerning the affairs of the School until his death in 1910.
He was the key figure in helping Australian Friends to develop a measure of self-confidence and to move towards an Australian Quakerism. He was regarded by Australian Friends as a confidant and as a court of appeal. Whenever an Australian Friend had a problem, Ransome seemed to be the one whose judgment was sought and advice heeded.

Electrolytic Zinc or the Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia (frequently abbreviated to EZ ) was the company that operated a Zinc refinery on the banks of the Derwent River in Risdon in Hobart in Tasmania between 1916 and 1984. For more information see http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Electrolytic%20zinc%20works.htm or for further reading: A Alexander, The Zinc Works, Hobart, 1992.

Emma Augusta Gatehouse (neeDodds nee Norman) was born on May 5 1835, in Sorell, Tasmania and was the wife of George Henry Gatehouse (1827-1864) they had three children, Florence Mary Ann Gatehouse (1860-1940), Emma Constance Gatehouse (1862-1935) and George Henry Gatehouse (1864-1947)

Eric Jeffrey (1890-1934), MA (Tas), MB. ChM. (Sydney) became a freelance journalist when, shortly after qualifying as a medical practitioner, illness left him crippled and unable to walk.

Dr Guiler was born in Ireland and moved to Tasmania in 1947 to work at the Zoology Department, University of Tasmania. He became an early researcher into the Tasmanian Devil, and a leading researcher on the Thylacine. Guiler was a Lecturer 1948-1951, Senior Lecturer 1952-1973 and then Reader 1974-1983 in Zoology at the University of Tasmania. He published over 100 scientific papers including 6 on the Tasmanian Tiger. He conducted several expeditions into remote areas of Tasmania. For more information see : http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/

Eric Rowland Guiler was a Lecturer 1948-51, Senior Lecturer 1952-73 and then Reader 1974-83 in Zoology at the University of Tasmania. For more information see : http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/additional/memoriam/memoriam.htm

Barrister of Hobart in the firm of Watchorn & Clarke. Eldest son of Arthur Denison Watchorn; born in Hobart, lawyer; took his law degree at the University of Tasmania LL.B. (Tas.), studied at Middle Temple and called to the Bar there in 1912; entered the firm of Finlay and Watchorn; original member of Sandy Bay Rowing Club 1906; President of Australian Amateur Rowing Council 1925 to 1935; Secretary of Tasmanian Rowing Association 1914; member of Board of Management of the Hutchins School 1929 to 1937;

Daughter of Joseph Benson Mather. Married Charles H. Robey

Face Lab, lead by Professor Caroline Wilkinson, is a research group that carries out forensic/archaeological research and consultancy work, including craniofacial analysis, facial depiction and forensic art. Face Lab specialises in facial identity, population demographics, portraiture and depiction. For more information see : https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/research/centres-and-institutes/institute-of-art-and-technology/expertise/face-lab

Third daughter of John Meredith and Maria Hammond, granddaughter of George and Mary Ann Meredith. Went to England to live with live with her Aunt Clara Dry. Died on 21 April 1955, at age ~93, in Teignmouth Hospital, Devon, UK

Married Major Francis Seymour Gaynor on 15 September 1863 in St. John’s Cathedral, Hong Kong (China). Second marriage to Major Notts. Two children - Francis Henry (1864-1899) married Sophie Stern and Clara Rosina Meredith (1867-1874)

Francis Seymour Gaynor was a Major in the 99th Regiment, the son of Bryan Gaynor of Killiney House, County Dublin and his wife Anna Maria Sherwood.

Fletcher Cruickshank worked in the physics department at the University of Tasmania from 1930-1973, rising through the ranks from senior demonstrator to reader. He helped in the Optical Munitions Panel during World War II. After the war he continued in optical research and collaborated with Waterworth Brothers. Born Hobart, 3 July 1908. Died October 1990. Educated University of Tasmania (BSc 1930, DSc 1946). Senior demonstrator in physics, University of Tasmania 1930, assistant lecturer 1930-35, lecturer 1936-47, senior lecturer 1948, associate professor 1949-61, reader 1962-73. http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001631b.htm

Frances Ruby Evans was born in Smithtown, New South Wales. She married William Edwin Fuller on 27 July 1910 in Hobart Tasmania. She died 27 June 1982 in Melbourne Victoria. Mother of Francis Margaret (Fuller) Morse and Mary Agnes (Fuller) Low

Francis Cotton (1801-1883), Quaker and settler, was born on 6 October 1801 in London, where he had some early education before attending Ackworth School. After an apprenticeship to a builder, he set up his own business. When 19 he was disowned for marrying outside the Society of Friends, Anna Maria Tilney, a former Friend from Kelvedon, Essex. Rheumatic fever, London fogs and visions of brighter prospects for a growing family induced him to sail in 1828 for New South Wales in the Mary with an old friend, Dr George Story. The voyage was prolonged by the loss of a mast, and when the ship put in to Hobart Town the party decided to remain. For more information see http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cotton-francis-1924

Francis Russell Nixon (1803–79), first Anglican bishop of Tasmania, was born in Kent, the son of an Anglican clergyman. A graduate from Oxford, he served at Canterbury Cathedral before being appointed in 1842 as first bishop of Tasmania. He arrived in Hobart the following year, and held the bishopric until 1863. Nixon held 'high' views, making him ready to assert his church's claims against other denominations and against civil power; likewise he upheld episcopal authority within the church. Such attitudes aroused much tension. In the 1840s the most dramatic concerned Nixon's relationship with Lt-Governor JE Eardley-Wilmot whose recall (1846) he helped effect. From 1850 local Anglicans sundered on the issue of baptism's capacity to nullify original sin, Nixon affirming that against 'Low Church' opposition. The man seems to have lacked both missionary commitment and spiritual force. He said bitter things of Tasmania and its residents.

The record had its positives. Nixon denounced the social effect of convict transportation. He fostered church schools, notably Hutchins and Launceston Grammar. Despite early misgivings, in 1857 he established a Synod that eased the Church's managerial problems, and prepared for the end of state aid. If no missionary, Nixon yet travelled throughout his diocese, the Bass Strait islands included. His artistic talent found expression in his home Runnymede, in drawings, and in photographic work, most notably of Aborigines at Oyster Cove. With all the contests around him, the wonder might be that his tenure lasted so long. Retirement passed in Italy, with a third marriage and further fatherhood.
From https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/N/Nixon.htm

Frank Allison (1858-1936) was the second son of Henry Allison and Margaret (Gunn), born 29 June 1858. He was employed in the Post Office as a supervising clerk but in 1911,
owing to a bad leg, he moved to Evandale, where he had a small piece of property, and became local post master at a reduced salary. He married in 1882 Emma Hume, a fellow member of the church choir of St. Paul's Church, Launceston and they had several children including Jack (A.J.), George, Percival, Rachel, Leila, Maggie.

Frank C. Green collaborated with Albert J. Gillies in drafting a history of the early development of hydro-electricity in Tasmania, pioneered by Gillies' father, James Hynde Gillies (1861-1942). J.H. Gillies, a metallurgist, developed an electrolytic process for extracting zinc from complex ores and in 1908 he started the Complex Ores Co. in Melbourne.
He proposed to establish works in Tasmania, using hydro-~ectric power from the waters of the Great Lake and the Shannon River. The hydro scheme was suggested by Harold Bisdee. a Midlands land owner, and Alexander McAulay, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Tasmania. The project was authorised in 1909 by the Complex Ores Act, which also allocated a site at Electrona, North West Bay for the refining works. A subsidiary of the Complex Ores Co., the Hydro-Electric Power and Metallurgical Co. was established and on 17 December 1910, at an informal ceremony, Mrs. McAulay turned the first sod for the water power development on land owned by Professor McAulay. A severe winter and other problems delayed work however.
In 1914 the Hydro-Electric undertaking was sold to the Government. In 1916 the Government authorised a rival firm, Amalgamated Zinc, to establish a zinc works at Risdon and agreed to supply hydro-electricity for it. Gillies retained a Carbide Electro Products project but this did not start producing until 1921 and in 1924 was taken over by the Hydro-Electricity Department.
The draft history was based on original records of the Complex Ores Co. and the Hydro-Electric Power and Metallurgy Co. as well as Gillies' private papers, and includes some extracts, but the original papers were burnt after A.J. Gillies' death, by his widow.

Frederic Wood Jones (1879-1954), anatomist, naturalist and anthropologist, was born on 23 January 1879 at Hackney, London, only son and youngest of three children of Charles Henry Jones, builder, slate merchant and architect, and his wife Lucy, née Allin. The family moved to Enfield where he attended local schools and showed enthusiasm for natural history. In 1897 he entered the London Hospital Medical College which in 1900 became part of the University of London where he graduated (B.Sc., 1903; M.B., B.S., 1904; D.Sc., 1910). In 1904 he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons; he was made a fellow in 1930.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1925. Wood Jones also became very interested in the Aboriginals both as an anthropologist and as a humanitarian. He was a prime mover in 1926 in founding the Anthropological Society of South Australia. He liked and admired the Aboriginals and was appalled by the conditions under which the detribalized so often had to exist and by public indifference to their plight. He did what he could with his pen to arouse public awareness of the problem in Adelaide and later supported their cause even more vigorously in Melbourne.
For more information see : http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jones-frederic-wood-6872

Rev. Frederick A. Woods (1861-1944) was a Congregational Church minister, who served at Bellerive and other places, and was Chairman of the Congregational Union of Tasmania. Obituary see : https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/70680363

Frederick Maitland Innes (1816-1882), journalist, lay preacher, farmer and politician, was born on 11 August 1816 at Edinburgh, son of Francis Innes and his wife Prudence, née Edgerley. Educated at Heriot's, Edinburgh, and Kelso Grammar School, he worked for his uncle, manager of estates for his relation, the Duke of Roxburgh. In 1836 Innes sailed in the Derwent and arrived in Hobart Town in 1837. He joined the Hobart Town Courier and was prominent in reviving the Mechanics' Institute. In 1838 he married Sarah Elizabeth, youngest child of Humphrey Grey, a prosperous free settler who had migrated from Ireland in 1829. He is known as: an anti-transportationist; a free trade politician; a journalist; a Member of Lower House (Tasmania); a Member of Upper House (Tasmania); a newspaper editor; a premier (Tasmania); a Presbyterian lay leader.
For more information see http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/innes-frederick-maitland-3835

Frederick Mortimer Young (c1860-1927) graduated at Cambridge University U.K. in 1884 and settled in Hobart in 1891 for his health. He assisted the newly founded (1890) University of Tasmania by drafting statutes etc. and editing the University Calendar and he served on the University Council 1919-21 and 1923-27. He also served on the committee of the Hobart Technical School 1893-5 and on the joint Tasmanian Government Education Department and University Engineering Board of Management. He was on the local committee for the Hobart meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1921 and read a paper to the geographical section on "projections for world maps".

James Frederick William Watson was born on 27 June 1878 in Sydney, Australia. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and graduated from medical school at the University of Sydney in 1903.
Although Watson began his working life as a doctor, he was soon drawn to the field of archives and library management. Over time, he became a firm advocate of the development and use of government archives, both at the state and national level.
In 1910, in recognition of his knowledge of Australiana and his private collection of Aboriginal artefacts, Watson was appointed as a Trustee of the Public Library of New South Wales. He was a prominent and active member of the Trustees, and in 1911 served on the subcommittee that investigated the Library's internal administration.
After the retirement of Principal Librarian F M Bladen in January 1912, Watson took leave of absence as Trustee, and was appointed Honorary Acting Principal Librarian. He acted in this position until a permanent replacement was appointed six months later.
Watson is best remembered for his contribution to the publication of the Historical Records of Australia series. The Parliamentary Library Committee appointed him editor of the series in 1912 and, over a period of 13 years, he almost single-handedly produced 33 volumes of transcripts of significant documents in Australian history. These volumes constitute one of the principal collections of primary sources published last century for the study of colonial Australian history, covering the period 1786 to 1848. Watson resigned from the editorship of Historical Records of Australia in 1925 and no further volumes were produced for another 70 years.
In 1927 Watson and his family moved to Canberra. During that year he published A Brief History of Canberra and in 1929 he served for a short time on the Federal Capital Commission.
Watson's other historical works include:
• History of Sydney Hospital (1911)
• The Beginnings of Government in Australia (1913)
• A Brief Analysis of Public Opinion in Australia During the Past Six Years (1918)
• Constitutional Reform (1932)
• Lieutenant James Cook (1933)
• Financial History of Australia (1937)
Watson died on 22 January 1945 and was survived by his wife and three daughters.
From: http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/grants/frederick-watson/frederick-watson-biography.aspx

Frederick William Mackie (1812-1893), Quaker, son of William Aram and Sarah Mackie, accompanied Robert Lindsey (1801-1863) on a "mission of concern" for the Society of Friends (Quakers) to the Australasian colonies. They left England in July 1852 in the barque "Wellington", arrived in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land in November 1852 and later travelled to New Zealand in 1853, New South Wales (1853), V.D.L. again (1853-4), Victoria (1854), South Australia (1854), N.S.W. and Victoria again (1854), a brief third visit to V.D.L., the Victorian goldfields (1854-5) and West Australia (1855), finishing their journey in South Africa. Mackie kept a diary of his travels, illustrated by little pen or pencil sketches, in small notebooks still held by the May family, descendants of the family of Mackie's wife. The diaries (except for the South African portion),with most of the sketches, were published in 1973 as Traveller under concern, transcribed and edited by Mary Nicholls for the History Department of the University of Tasmania. After the mission journey was completed in 1855 Mackie did not return to England but went to South Australia to marry, in May 1856, Rachel Ann May, daughter of Joseph and Hannah May of Mount Barker, South Australia. For a few years they ran a Quaker school in Hobart, but returned to South Australia in 1861.

The Friends' School, Hobart is an independent co-educational Quaker day and boarding school located in North Hobart, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Founded in 1887 by Quakers, the school currently caters for approximately 1330 students from Pre-Kindergarten to Year 12, including 47 boarders from Years 7 to 12. It is the largest Quaker school in the world. For more information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends%27_School,_Hobart

see https://www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/648286/University-Club-125-stories.pdf

George Andrew Gatenby (1846- 1870) was the grandson of Andrew Gatenby (1771-1848) of Barton Mill and son of William Gatenby (1809-1855) and Elizabeth (Towart) . In 1825 the Gatenbys erected a substantial flour-mill, using millstones they had brought with them to the colony, and cut a canal and banked a reservoir to supply the mill with water from the Isis River. This mill served the surrounding district for fifty years.

Sir George Arthur, soldier and colonial administrator, was born on 21 June 1784, at Plymouth, England, the fourth and youngest son of John Arthur of Duck's Lane and his wife Catherine, née Cornish. Early in the eighteenth century the Arthurs, formerly a Cornish family, had moved to Plymouth. For more information see: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/arthur-sir-george-1721

Sir George Cartland was the deputy governor of Uganda between 1961and 1962 and was heavily involved with the development of educational institutions within Africa. After retiring from his post in the Ugandan Government, he took up senior university roles in the UK and Australia including registrar of the University of Birmingham and vice-chancellor of the University of Tasmania. In 1968 he moved to Tasmania to take up the post of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania. He stayed in the role for 10 years and was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws for his services to the University of Tasmania. His services were in demand by the Tasmanian government where he was chair of the South-West National Park Advisory Committee, undertook a review of library and archives legislation in 1977 and a thorough review of Tasmanian government administration between 1979 and 1981. For more information see: http://125timeline.utas.edu.au/timeline/1960/sir-george-cartland-cmg/

George Dixon also known as George Dixson Cockfield, watercolourist and landowner, was born in Durham, England, probably in about 1800. In 1821 he came to Van Diemen’s Land with his brother, Robert, aboard the Westmoreland . For two years he worked as overseer on the property of Edward Lord, chief magistrate of Hobart Town. He wrote lengthy letters home describing the homestead, the topography and local customs (Mitchell Library [ML]). After receiving land grants from Governor Macquarie, the brothers settled at Green Valley on the Lower Clyde. Robert later sold out to George and joined the New South Wales Surveyor-General’s Department in 1826. Since Robert must have had some professional training for this position, it seems likely that George had some early instruction in draughtsmanship as well, but nothing further is known about his life. The National Library holds George Dixon’s watercolour, Green Valley. A West View. George Dixons Farm Van Diemen’s Land in 1827 , alternatively titled Green Valley Homestead, Van Diemen’s Land . https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1084336?c=people

Born 8 April 1891 in Warwick Queensland, son of David Marshall and Helen Pillans Jackson. Married Beatrice Terry (1891-1973) on the 7 March 1916. They had one child Margaret Read Marshall (1919-2009)

Dr Story made his home with the Cotton family who had settled at Kelvedon near Swansea. He looked after the health of the large family and the farm servants but his main position was assistant district surgeon at the Waterloo Point (Swansea) convict station. His scientific knowledge was helpful in farm and sheep development, analysing patent scab cures etc. Francis Cotton and his wife Anna Maria (Tilney) formerly of Kelvedon, Essex, U.K. were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers)and Dr Story also became a Quaker and made some missionary visits on behalf of the Friends to South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. He was a keen botanist and naturalist and corresponded with and collected specimens for Dr. von Mueller of Melbourne Botanical Gardens. He also kept regular meteorological records for the Royal Society of Tasmania. He served as electoral officer for Glamorgan, was on the Glamorgan School Board and helped to found a Library in Swansea in 1862.
Dr George Fordyce Story (sometimes spelt Storey) {1800-1885), a medical practitioner, was born in Shoreditch, Middlesex [London] but was apprenticed to a doctor in Aberdeen, a George French M.D., also professor of chemistry, while he studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen, where he graduated M.A. in 1821. He then went to Edinburgh University to study for the doctorate in medicine which was conferred on him in 1824. Dr. Story spent three months at the Moorfields Opthalmic Institution, London, and then practised in London for three years. In 1828 he accompanied his friend Francis Cotton to Australia, travelling as surgeon on the "Mary". In April 1829 he was appointed assistant district surgeon at the Waterloo Point (Swansea) convict station until 1844 when the office was abolished. He also attended most of the East Coast settlers and to supplement his income he was also government store keeper at the Waterloo Point depot until 1834. In October 1844, through the interest of the Lieutenant Governor he was appointed secretary of the Royal Society of Tasmania and Superintendent of the Society's Botanical Gardens, at £200 p.a. until September 1845 when the Government reduced the grant to the Society and in November 1845 Dr Story resigned and F.W. Newman of Sydney was appointed at £80 p.a. In December 1845 he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Probation Party at Rocky Hills but in May 1848 this appointment also terminated. Dr Story then petitioned the Government for financial assistance, explaining that on his appointment in 1829 the scattered nature of the district made it impossible for him to supplement his small income as district surgeon by private practice. The district was inhabited by a hostile tribe of aborigines, making travelling on his duties dangerous, especially as there were no roads, only foot tracks. He also, therefore, took charge of the commissariat stores until 1834. In 1841 he resigned as district surgeon but it was impossible to replace him so he continued until November 1841 when Dr F. E. Teush was appointed. However under new regulations for probation most of the district duties were carried out by Dr Story, for 7 months without pay, and then as no other officer was appointed he continued as district surgeon until 1844 when the office was abolished. Dr Story made his home with the Cotton family who had settled at Kelvedon near Swansea and was known to the younger members of the family as the "little doctor", being of small stature. He looked after the health of the large family and the farm servants and his scientific knowledge was helpful in farm and sheep development, analysing patent scab cures etc. Francis Cotton {1801-1883) of London and his wife Anna Maria (Tilney) formerly of Kelvedon, Essex, U.K. were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers)and Dr Story also became a Quaker and made some missionary visits on behalf of the Friends to South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. He was a keen botanist and naturalist and corresponded with and collected specimens for Dr. von Mueller of Melbourne Botanical Gardens. He also kept regular meteorological records for the Royal Society of Tasmania. He served as electoral officer for Glamorgan, was on the Glamorgan School Board and helped to found a Library in Swansea in 1862. He went blind in his old age. Dr. Story's papers include medical case notes and accounts, student notes and exercises, botanical papers including some correspondence with Dr. von Mueller, copies of electoral returns etc. Some of his old medical study notes were later reused as waste paper for drying botanical specimens. Many of his books show signs of having been scorched, probably by a fire at Kelvedon which started when Dr Story was smoking hams. Some letters have had the signature cut out, including part of the letter on the other side. A collection of autographs of East Coast residents was found with Dr Parker's papers (P.1) but the appropriate pieces have not been found.
For more information see : http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/story-george-fordyce-2706

Appointed first assistant surveyor of Van Diemen's Land in 1826. For more information see http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/frankland-george-2064

Second don of John Meredith and Maria Hammond. Grandson of George and Mary Ann Meredith. Married Alicia Louisa MacLean on 24 July 1886 in St. John’s Church, Darlinghurst, Sydney. They had two son's- Gwynydd Purves Wynne-Aubrey Meredith (1887-1975) and Ewen Harcourt Wynne-Aubrey MEeredith (1892-1968)

George Marshall (1791-1881), originally of Ruthven, near Dundee, Scotland, arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1821, and with his family settled near Sorell. One of his grandsons, George Douglas Marshall, married Beatrice Terry, grandaughter of Ralph Terry (1815-1892) of Lachlan Mills, New Norfolk

George Meredith (1777-1856), settler, was born on 13 February 1777 near Birmingham, England, the fourth son of John Meredith and his wife Sally, née Turner; his father was a prominent barrister and solicitor and descended from the ancient Amerydeth family of Devon and Wales. In 1796 Meredith was commissioned second lieutenant in the marines and later served in the West Indies, at the blockade of Ferrol in Spain and on the Mediterranean Station. At Alexandria in 1803 he made a daring ascent of Pompey's Pillar, a granite column 180 feet (55 m) high, to fasten the Union Jack in place of a French cap-of-liberty placed there by Napoleon's forces. In 1805 when recruiting in Berkshire he met and married Sarah, the daughter of H. W. Hicks. Next year he retired on half-pay and commenced farming at Newbury; later the family move to Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, and farmed there until 1819 when the post-war rural depression stimulated his interest in emigration. He then had two boys and three girls, the eldest being 13. For more information see : http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/meredith-george-2449

George, eldest son on George Meredith (Snr). on emigrating to Van Diemens Land received a land grant next to his father's at Swanport and also worked for his father in the whale oil business and with the stock, he later settled in South Australia where he was killed by natives in 1836.

George Murdoch was admitted a barrister and solicitor on 3 November 1894 and set up practice in Hobart in the Stone Buildings. Like his partner, Oscar Jones, he seems to have had connections with the Broadmarsh district.

Dr G.Musgrave Parker (1885-1965) qualified in medicine (M.B. B.Ch.) at Cambridge, U.K., in 1913, and in 1914 he was appointed a medical officer of health in Swansea. From 1915 until 1918 he served with the Australian forces in Egypt and France. On return he served as medical officer for the Kentish Municipality (Sheffield, Rai1ton) 1919-1921; Swansea 1921-1926 and Clarence, 1926-1947, and then joined the staff of the Repatriation Hospital, Hobart, until he retired in 1955. He acted as president of branches of the RSL at Kentish, Swansea and Lindisfarne. He devoted most of his spare time, however, to a study of the history of the East Coast and hoped to write a book on it, but this was never finished.

Mr. Levy was a builder and contractor and prominent figure in the business and public life of Devonport and district. Two of the best-known buildings he erected are the present E.S. and A. Bank at Devonport (built for the old Bank of Van Diemen's Landin 1891) and the Devonport Town Hall in 1899.For a number of years he was a member of the old Devonport Town Board, subsequently being elected a member of the South Ward in the Devonport Municipal Council at its inception in1907, upon which he retained his seat for nine years, and served as Warden in 1909. Shortly after the adoption of an elective Marine Board for Mersey in 1906, and upon the resignation of the late Warden Chas. A. Littler, Mr. Levy was elected to the vacancy, and served for about 18 months, when he resigned upon undertaking a contract for the Board. He was a prominent Oddfellow for the greater part of his life, and filled at various times all the offices of that institution. A keen follower of bowls, he was known on most of the greens in the State.
From https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/68145766

George Rouse (1800-1873) was the Van Diemen’s Land Company’s storekeeper, a pioneer farmer and Burnie’s first justice of the peace and unpaid police magistrate. He was Emu Bay’s first ‘mover and shaker’ and was influential in the development of better road and port facilities for the pioneer farmers. For more information see http://www.burnieregionalmuseum.net/Collections/Our-Collections/The-George-Rouse-Papers

George Thomas William Blamey Boyes (1787-1853), public servant and diarist, was born probably at Stubbington, Hampshire, England, the son of George Thomas Boyes of Winchester.
For more information see http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/boyes-george-thomas-1817

George Washington Walker (1800-1859), Quaker, shopkeeper and humanitarian, was born on 19 March 1800 in London, the twenty-first child of John Walker (1726-1821) by his second wife, Elizabeth, née Ridley. Because of the death of his mother and the absence of his aged father engaged in the saddle trade in Paris, he was brought up by his grandmother in Newcastle. He was educated by a Wesleyan schoolmaster near Barnard Castle, and apprenticed in 1814 to a linen draper. Impressed by the probity and wisdom of his Quaker employers and James Backhouse of York, a leading Quaker minister, he left the Unitarian persuasion of his family in 1827 and became a member of the Society of Friends. The next year he formed the first Temperance Society in Newcastle.
For more information see http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/walker-george-washington-2764

The School was founded in June 1862, originally as the 'Hobart Town Female Refuge' I to provide a home for neglected girls and train them in washing, sewing and domestic work. It was managed by a committee of ladies elected by subscribers, usually under the patronage of the Governor's wife, but five gentlemen were elected as governors and formed an advisory committee. The School occupied various temporary houses until 1873 when the committee leased buildings in the Barracks, which premises were extended in 1879 when the School took the protestant girls from the Queen's Orphan School, New Town, which was being closed. In 1892 it moved to 'Kensington House', Davey Street (now the Trades Hall) and finally in 1924 it moved to 'Maylands', Pirie Street, New Town. The School took 30 to 40 girls, usually between 6 and 14, but occasionally younger, and the committee liked to keep them beyond their committal period until they were 16 and trained for service, unless there were suitable relatives. They were usually referred by a magistrate and supported by the Government, by relatives or by donations and the little earned by laundry and sewing work. The children were looked after by a matron and sub-matron and ladies of the committee visited in turn. As well as instruction in domestic work the children were given some basic education, by a Schoolmistress appointed after the transfer of the Orphan School girls in 1879, and after 1925 attended state school, and also received religious instruction from local ministers or Sunday school teachers.
In February 1945 the School was transferred to the Salvation Army.

G.P. Fitzgerald and Company was an emporium retail business begun by George Parker Fitzgerald in 1892. It was bought out by Charles Davis Ltd in 1986 and continued business as 'Fitzgeralds' to 1995 when Harris Scarfe assumed control. G.P. Fitzgerald was a founding Director of the famous Cascades Brewery in Hobart and was one of three office bearers.

A.I. Clark married in 1878 Grace Paterson Ross, daughter of John Ross, a Hobart shipbuilder.
They had five sons: Alexander, a marine engineer; Andrew Inglis. another lawyer and judge:
Conway, an architect; Wendell, a medical practitioner, and Carrell, Clerk to the House of
Assembly. Another son, Melvin, died in infancy and there were two daughters, Ethel and Esma.

Graeme Raphael was a councillor on both the Oatlands Council and the municipal body that replaced it, the Southern Midlands Council. He served on the board of the Oatlands/Bothwell Uniting Church Council and was a founding member of the Oatlands Historical Society. He worked for the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, as an apiary officer, and was also a member of the Tasmanian Beekeepers’ Association and committee member of the Parattah Railway Station, committee member of Neighbourhood Watch Tasmania Inc., Jubilee Hall and Progress Association and the Upper Coal River Landcare Group at Tunnack.