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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…

Street Naming Committee

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, Early 1800s, Late 1700s
Catherine Helen Spence

In October 1905, at a public gathering in Adelaide to celebrate Catherine Spence’s eightieth birthday, South Australia’s Chief Justice, Sir…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910
Cecil Thomas Madigan

Cecil Thomas Madigan was born on 15th October 1889 at Renmark, South Australia, the son of fruitgrower Thomas Madigan and…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Charles Albert Edward Fenner

Charles Fenner (1884–1955) made signal contributions to education and geographical science in South Australia. For 20 years he contributed a…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Charles Allan Seymour Hawker

Charles Hawker was born on 16th May 1894 at Bungaree Station, near Clare, South Australia, the son of station manager…

early twentieth century
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…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910
Charles Duguid, OBE

Charles Duguid was born on 6th April 1884 at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of primary school headmaster Charles Duguid…

early twentieth century, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Charles Hindley

Charles Hindley MP was a man with a highly developed social conscience and an international economic vision underpinned by local…

Adelaide Street Names, South Australian Company

Early 1800s, Mid 1800s
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…

Street Naming Committee, Tynte Street

1830s, Early 1800s, Late 1700s, Mid 1800s
Charles Mann

When the Street Naming Committee sat to name the streets of Adelaide, Charles Mann, the Advocate General appointed by the…

Adelaide Street Names, Mann Terrace, Street Naming Committee

1830s, Mid 1800s
Charles Witto-Witto Cawthorne

In 1907 Charles Witto-Witto Cawthorne wrote, ‘Scarcely a week passes but what we hear is said by people of all…

1860s, 1880s, 1890s, 1910s, 1920s
CJ Dennis

Clarence Michael James Dennis was born at the Auburn Hotel, South Australia, on 7 September 1876. His father, James Dennis,…

early twentieth century, late nineteenth century
Colin Sidney Hayes

Colin Sidney Hayes (1924–1999) was an expert handler and judge of horses, and an astute businessman.

early twentieth century, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Colin Sidney Hayes, AM, OBE

Colin Sidney Hayes, thoroughbred horse trainer extraordinaire, had a simple philosophy of life and he practised it every day. ‘The…

late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Colonel George Palmer Jnr

Lieutenant Colonel George Palmer Jnr has been immortalised in Palmer Place, North Adelaide as a member of the South Australian…

Adelaide Street Names, Palmer Place, Street Naming Committee

1830s, Early 1800s, Late 1800s, Mid 1800s
Colonel Robert Torrens

Robert Torrens’ accomplishments by most standards were formidable. He was a writer of more than ninety books, a decorated military…

Adelaide Street Names, River Torrens, Street Naming Committee

1800s, 1810s, 1820s, 1830s, 1840’s
Colonel William Light

William Light was born on 27th April 1786 at Kuala Kedah in Malaya, the son of Captain Francis Light and…

1830s
Colonel William Light

Colonel William Light is a household name in South Australia. Most would be familiar with his tall and prominent bronze…

Adelaide City Plan, Light Square, Street Naming Committee

1830s, Early 1800s, Late 1700s
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…

early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Dame Roma Mitchell, AC, DBE, CVO, QC

Roma Flinders Mitchell was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 2nd October 1913, the daughter of Harold Flinders Mitchell and…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010
Dame Ruby Litchfield, DBE

Dame Ruby Litchfield epitomised the saying that if you want something done, ask a busy person. She was the first…

2000-2010, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Daniel Moriarty

Daniel Moriarty was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 20th August 1895, the son of council worker and milk-roundsman Daniel…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
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…

O’Connell Street, Street Naming Committee

Early 1800s, Late 1700s, Mid 1800s
David Dallwitz, AO

David Friedrich Dallwitz was born at Freeling, South Australia, on 25 October 1914, the son of clerk Joseph Ernst Dallwitz…

1930s, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
David Fowler

David Fowler was representative of a generation of nineteenth-century South Australian business leaders who helped to develop the economic and…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s
David Shearer

David Shearer dedicated his life to the manufacture of farm machinery but is usually remembered for the steam car that…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
David Unaipon

David Unaipon was born on 28th September 1872 at Point McLeay Mission, South Australia, the son of evangelist James Ngunaitponi,…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Dominic McGuire

Dominic Paul McGuire (1903–1978) was educated at Adelaide’s Christian Brothers College and the University of Adelaide. He married Frances Margaret…

early twentieth century, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
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…

1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, late twentieth century
Doris Taylor, MBE

Doris Irene Taylor was born in Norwood, South Australia, on 25th July 1901, the daughter of bricklayer Thomas Simpkin Taylor…

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s

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