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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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Cecil Thomas Madigan
Cecil Thomas Madigan was born on 15th October 1889 at Renmark, South Australia, the son of fruitgrower Thomas Madigan and…
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Charles Allan Seymour Hawker
Charles Hawker was born on 16th May 1894 at Bungaree Station, near Clare, South Australia, the son of station manager…
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Charles Cameron Kingston PC QC
Privy Councillor and Queen’s Counsel, Premier of South Australia from 1893 to 1899 and member of the first Commonwealth ministry…
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Charles Duguid, OBE
Charles Duguid was born on 6th April 1884 at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of primary school headmaster Charles Duguid…
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Charles Hindley
Charles Hindley MP was a man with a highly developed social conscience and an international economic vision underpinned by local…
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Charles Kemeys Kemeys Tynte
The original list of the Street Naming Committee bearing the fifty-six streets and six squares of the city of Adelaide…
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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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CJ Dennis
Clarence Michael James Dennis was born at the Auburn Hotel, South Australia, on 7 September 1876. His father, James Dennis,…
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Colin Sidney Hayes
Colin Sidney Hayes (1924–1999) was an expert handler and judge of horses, and an astute businessman.
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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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Colonel Robert Torrens
Robert Torrens’ accomplishments by most standards were formidable. He was a writer of more than ninety books, a decorated military…
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Colonel William Light
William Light was born on 27th April 1786 at Kuala Kedah in Malaya, the son of Captain Francis Light and…
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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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Constance Muriel Davey, OBE
Constance Davey was born on 4th December 1882 at Nuriootpa, South Australia, the daughter of bank-manager Stephen Henry Davey and…
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Dame Ruby Litchfield, DBE
Dame Ruby Litchfield epitomised the saying that if you want something done, ask a busy person. She was the first…
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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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David Dallwitz, AO
David Friedrich Dallwitz was born at Freeling, South Australia, on 25 October 1914, the son of clerk Joseph Ernst Dallwitz…
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David Fowler
David Fowler was representative of a generation of nineteenth-century South Australian business leaders who helped to develop the economic and…
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Dominic McGuire
Dominic Paul McGuire (1903–1978) was educated at Adelaide’s Christian Brothers College and the University of Adelaide. He married Frances Margaret…
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Donald Allan Dunstan AC QC
Don Dunstan was born in Suva, Fiji, on 21st September 1926, the son of Francis Vivian Dunstan, a manager for…
