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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 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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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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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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Jacob Montefiore
The name Jacob Montefiore is synonymous with Montefiore Hill in North Adelaide, upon which the highly recognisable statue of Colonel…
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James Pennington
James Pennington is one of the lesser-known figures after whom a street has been named in Adelaide. His inclusion was…
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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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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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Lord Melbourne
William Lamb, the 2nd Viscount Melbourne – or Lord Melbourne as he was most commonly known – was Queen Victoria’s…
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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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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 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 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 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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William Alexander Mackinnon
Mackinnon Parade, North Adelaide, was named after William Alexander Mackinnon MP, the Tory member for Dunwich (1830) and later a…
