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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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Colonel George Palmer Jnr
Lieutenant Colonel George Palmer Jnr has been immortalised in Palmer Place, North Adelaide as a member of the South Australian…
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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 Wright
Wright Street is in the south-west quadrant of the City of Adelaide and is named after John Wright, one of…
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King William IV
The name of the central carriageway running north and south through the city of Adelaide was reserved for the King…
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Lord Brougham
Brougham Place in North Adelaide is named after Lord Brougham, otherwise known as Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and…
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Maria Hack (nee Barton)
John Barton Hack arrived in South Australia via Hobart and Launceston in early 1837. As a Quaker merchant of capital,…
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Matthew Flinders
The independent mapping of the coastline by Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin, and reports to governments and learned societies in…
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Osmond Gilles
Osmond Gilles, the first Colonial Treasurer in South Australia, is by any description an enigmatic figure, a pastiche of contradictory…
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Queen Adelaide
The city of Adelaide was named after Queen Adelaide, wife of King William IV, who reigned when the South Australia Act…
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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 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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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 Hallifax
One of the lesser-known streets in Adelaide is Halifax Street, which runs east/ west in the south-west quadrant of the…
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William Kermode
William Kermode, a leading pastoralist in early nineteenth-century Tasmania, is arguably a gratuitous selection for the streets of Adelaide, covering…
