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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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Sylvia Birdseye
Sylvia Birdseye was born Sylvia Jessie Catherine Merrill near Port Augusta on 26 January 1902, the daughter of station-hand Charles…
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Theodor George Henry Strehlow
Theodor George Henry Strehlow (1908–1978) was brought up by his parents, Carl and Frieda Strehlow at the Hermannsburg Mission near…
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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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Thomas Corbin
Thomas Corbin was a pioneering medical practioner in late nineteenth-century Adelaide and South Australia. Early Life and Career Thomas Wilson…
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Thomas Gilbert
Thomas Gilbert, a loyal and faithful believer in the colony established according to the Wakefield principle, was the first colonial…
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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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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy lectured and wrote on the wine business and olive growing, was a member of the Phylloxera Board, Wine…
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Thomas Quinton Stow
Thomas Quinton Stow was born on 7th July 1801 at Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, a descendant of an old farming family.…
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W H Gray
William Henry Gray, born in London in 1808, came to South Australia in the early days of the colony, having…
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Walter Charles Torode
North Adelaide-born Walter Charles Torode (1858–1937), after a carpentry apprenticeship at William King’s steam joinery works, made his reputation building…
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Walter Gill
When Walter Gill retired in 1923 after thirty-three years as South Australia’s third Conservator of Forests, he encapsulated his life…
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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 Anstey Giles
William Anstey Giles came from pioneering stock. He was born in Adelaide on 29th June 1860, one of the 78…
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William Christie Gosse
Thirty-year-old widower William Christie Gosse was employed at the South Australian Survey Office when he was sent, in 1873, by…
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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 Henry Willshire
William Henry Willshire, Adelaide born, joined the South Australian police in 1878 and in 1882 was posted to central Australia.
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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…
