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Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm
Pulteney Street is the counterpoint of Morphett Street on Colonel William Light’s plan of the city of Adelaide. It runs…
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Boyle Travers Finniss
Boyle Travers Finniss joins the catalogue of Adelaide street names from the comparatively lowly position of Assistant Surveyor to Colonel…
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Charles Mann
When the Street Naming Committee sat to name the streets of Adelaide, Charles Mann, the Advocate General appointed by the…
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Colonel William Light
Colonel William Light is a household name in South Australia. Most would be familiar with his tall and prominent bronze…
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Daniel O’Connell
The naming of O’Connell Street in the North Adelaide section of Colonel William Light’s plan of the city is almost…
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Edmund William Jerningham
Jerningham Street in North Adelaide is named after Edmund William Jerningham, a Roman Catholic banker of noble lineage whose family…
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Edward Gibbon Wakefield
For some 150 years Edward Gibbon Wakefield has confounded the city fathers of Adelaide, and some contemporary writers still don’t…
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John Brown
In what can only be described as an ignominious end, John Brown’s body ‘lies a moulding’ in an unmarked grave…
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John Walbanke Childers
With the passage of the Reform Bill the numbers of young, eligible and socially responsible MPs in the Commons had…
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Josiah Roberts
Josiah Roberts is one of the more elusive of all those named in the streets of Adelaide. He drifts across…
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Sir George Strickland Kingston
Kingston Terrace in North Adelaide is named after Colonel William Light’s deputy, George Strickland Kingston who, on appointment as Deputy…
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Sir John George Shaw Lefevre
A prima facie case can be made for the inclusion of the name of John George Shaw Lefevre on the…
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Sir John Jeffcott
Jeffcott Street, which begins atop Montefiore Hill in Adelaide and heads in a northerly direction through and around Wellington Square,…
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Sir John Morphett
At the first big promotional rally in Exeter Hall in London on 30 June 1834, John Morphett stood before more…
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton was dogged, committed, determined and some say sanctimonious in everything he did. Immediately after he personally…
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Sir William Molesworth
Sir William Molesworth was the youngest man memorialised in the streets of Adelaide, and in a touch of serendipity the…
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Thomas Archer
In what little commentary exists on the naming of Archer Street in any of the extant source material, the street…
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William Alexander Mackinnon
Mackinnon Parade, North Adelaide, was named after William Alexander Mackinnon MP, the Tory member for Dunwich (1830) and later a…
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William Wolryche Whitmore
In Adelaide William Wolryche Whitmore’s name is perpetuated in one of the six city squares, along with Queen Victoria, Colonel…
