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Raikes Currie
Raikes Currie is best described as a wealthy, urbane Anglican savant who remained professionally unfulfilled in his father’s banking house,…
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Richard Hanson
Richard Davies Hanson (1805–1876), a London-born, Nonconformist lawyer, developed an interest in settling South Australia in association with Edward Gibbon…
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Robert Barr Smith
When Robert Barr Smith died in 1915 at the age of 91, long obituaries extolled his role as an astute…
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Robert Gouger
Fittingly, Gouger Street is named after one of the most significant of all the reformers associated with the settlement of…
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Robert Gouger
Robert Gouger was one of the first and most influential advocates for South Australia. The son of a wealthy London…
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Roy ‘Mo’ Rene
Roy Rene, known most prominently for his character of Mo McCackie, has been generally hailed as one of Australia’s best…
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Ruthven Frederic Ruthven-Smith
Ruthven Frederic Ruthven-Smith was an English investor who had more than twenty significant buildings built in Adelaide in the early…
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Samuel Mills
Mills Terrace, North Adelaide is named after Samuel Mills – and not John Stuart Mill as some have concluded. Nevertheless,…
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Sarah Young
Sarah Jane (Jeanna) Young (née Foster) (1866–1955), inspired by Catherine Helen Spence, became secretary of the Effective Voting League (1897),…
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Sir Claude Gibb, KBE
Claude Dixon Gibb was a man whose prodigious energy, flair for publicity and wide experience brought him many honours and…
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Sir Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson was a colossus of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration who carried the banner of scientific research…
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Sir Edward Hayward
Edward Waterfield Hayward (known as ‘Bill’) was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 10th November 1903, the son of Arthur…
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Sir Edward Holden
Edward Wheewall Holden was born on 14th August 1885 at College Town, South Australia. He was educated at Prince Alfred…
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Sir George Brookman, KBE
Staunch capitalist George Brookman was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 15th April 1850, the son of printer Benjamin Brookman and…
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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 Hans Heysen, OBE
Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz Heysen was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 8th October 1877, the son of Louis Heinrich Wilhelm…
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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.…
