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Lady June Porter

The quintessential lady, exuding warmth and embracing life and all it has to offer, Lady June Porter was Lady Mayoress…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Lady Margaret Rymill

Lady Margaret Rymill was Lady Mayoress, Married to the Lord Mayor, from 1950-1953. Early Life Lady Margaret Rymill was born…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010
Lavington Bonython fountain

Affectionately known as the ‘Bonython bath’, this fountain stood outside the South Australian Museum from 1965 to 2005

fountain

fountain, memorial, sculpture

1870s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s, 1960s
Lawrence Allen Wells, OBE

Lawrence Allen Wells was born on 30th April 1860 at Yallum Station, near Penola, South Australia, the son of squatter…

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
League of Women Voters

The League of Women Voters (so named from 1939), earlier entitled the Women’s Non-Party Political Association, was established in South…

political group

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Legal Profession

The evolving profession in South Australia retained some centuries-old practices.

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1980s
Light Horse Memorial

Remembering South Australian Light Horsemen who served in Egypt and Palestine and at Gallipoli

obelisk

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, Boer War, early twenty–first century
Lord Florey bust

Adelaide-born Lord Florey won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945 for his part in making the infection-fighting penicillin available

bust

bust, prize, scientist, sculpture

1890s, 1920s, 1940s, 1960s
Lunatic Asylum

The Adelaide Lunatic Asylum was located on North Terrace at Hackney, at the location where the National Wine Centre now…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Luther Robert Scammell

Luther Robert Scammell was born at Hindmarsh, South Australia, on 20th March 1858, the son of pharmacist Luther Scammell and…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Lyell Alexander McEwin

Lyell Alexander McEwin (1897–1988) received a frugal Mid North upbringing which taught him the motto, ‘waste not, want not’, that…

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

Mahomet Allum was described in glowing testimonials as ‘the wonder man’ and by his adversaries as a ‘quack’. One of…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Mary Jane Warnes, MBE

Although financial hardship was seldom the personal problem for Mary Warnes that it was for many of her contemporaries, she…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Matthew Flinders Memorial

A statue to honour Matthew Flinders, the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia, was a long time coming in Adelaide

memorial

circumnavigate, coast, explorer, memorial, sculpture, statue

1790s, 1800-1810, 1840s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s
May Mills, OBE

May Mills was born on 19th July 1890 on her family’s sheep property ‘Millbrae’, near Kanmantoo, South Australia. She was…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
MC ‘Thistle’ Anderson

MC ‘Thistle’ Anderson (b. 1879) was best known for her 1905 attack on self-satisfied Edwardian Adelaide through her pamphlet Arcadian…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
McLaren Wharf

Built between 1839 and 1840, McLaren Wharf was the first element of maritime infrastructure established at Port Adelaide.

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Mitchell Building

The ‘University Building’ has served many functions since it opened in 1882

university building

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s
Mrs Ada Cain

Ada Cain was Lady Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (married to the Lord Mayor) between 1933-1935 Early Life and…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Mrs Amelia Fuller

Amelia Fuller was twice the Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (married to the Mayor), from 1866-1869 and 1882-1883. Early…

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s
Mrs Elizabeth Bridgland

Mrs Elizabeth Bridgland was Lady Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (married to the Lord Mayor) between 1966 and1968. Early…

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Mrs Elizabeth Glandfield

Elizabeth Glandfield was the Mayoress of Adelaide from 1859-1862. Elizabeth Ann née Hawkes married Edward Bootle Wilbraham Glandfield in Adelaide…

1820s, 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s
Mrs Emily Scott

Benefactress, Emily Scott was Mayoress of Adelaide between 1877 and 1878. Early Life Emily Scott was born in 1840 at…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s
Mrs Frances Goode

Frances Goode was the Mayoress of Adelaide from 1863 to 1864. Frances Goode née Russell was born in 1838 in…

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s
Mrs Irene Hawker

Irene Hawker was Lady Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (married to the Lord Mayor) between 1941 and 1943. Early…

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Mrs Jane Kerr Peacock

Jane Peacock was the Lady Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (sister-in-law to the Mayor) from 1875-1877. Early Life and…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Mrs Janet Simpson

Janet Simpson was the Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (married to the Mayor) from 1913-1915. Early Life and Career…

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Mrs Jean Beatrice Barrett

Jean Beatrice Barrett was Lady Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (married to the Mayor) between 1937 and 1941 Early…

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Second World War
Mrs Jeanie Willcox

Jeanie Willcox was Mayoress of the City of Adelaide from 1892-1894. Early Life When Jeanie Barker married her second husband,…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Mrs Kathleen Agnes Irwin

Mrs Kathleen Agnes Irwin was the Lady Mayoress of the City of Adelaide (married to the Lord Mayor) from 1963-1966.…

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