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Captain Charles Sturt
At first inclination Captain Charles Sturt seems an obvious choice for immortality in the streets of Adelaide. After all, he…
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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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George Fife Angas
Euphemistically and eulogistically described as the ‘Father of South Australia’, George Fife Angas still speaks to us through the church…
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Govenor John Hindmarsh
Captain John Hindmarsh, who was eventually knighted by Queen Victoria, became the first vice-regal representative of the British Crown to…
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Robert Gouger
Fittingly, Gouger Street is named after one of the most significant of all the reformers associated with the settlement of…
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Sir Henry George Ward
In the context of the colonisation of South Australia, Sir Henry George Ward is best described as a Philosophical Radical.…
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Sir James Hurtle Fisher
Hurtle Square is one of the principal squares in the central business district of Adelaide. It is named after James…
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Sir John Franklin
Sir John Franklin was introduced to a career in the navy and a lifetime of adventure by his older cousin,…
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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 Richard Davies Hanson
Sir Richard Davies Hanson was knighted by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1869 towards the end of a long…
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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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Thomas Bewes Strangways
Strangways Terrace in North Adelaide is named after Thomas Bewes Strangways, one of the junior members of the Street Naming…
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William Glegg Gover
Gover Street is in the greater section of the North Adelaide precinct and runs east by north-east off Jeffcott Street…
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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…
