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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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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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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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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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Duke of Wellington
It is tempting to speculate that Wellington Square was deliberately set aside from the other squares in Adelaide because the…
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Govenor John Hindmarsh
Captain John Hindmarsh, who was eventually knighted by Queen Victoria, became the first vice-regal representative of the British Crown to…
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Henry Waymouth
As one of the directors of George Fife Angas’ South Australian Company, Henry Waymouth was an automatic selection for inclusion…
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King William IV
The name of the central carriageway running north and south through the city of Adelaide was reserved for the King…
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Lord Melbourne
William Lamb, the 2nd Viscount Melbourne – or Lord Melbourne as he was most commonly known – was Queen Victoria’s…
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Maria Hack (nee Barton)
John Barton Hack arrived in South Australia via Hobart and Launceston in early 1837. As a Quaker merchant of capital,…
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Matthew Flinders
The independent mapping of the coastline by Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin, and reports to governments and learned societies in…
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Osmond Gilles
Osmond Gilles, the first Colonial Treasurer in South Australia, is by any description an enigmatic figure, a pastiche of contradictory…
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Sir John Franklin
Sir John Franklin was introduced to a career in the navy and a lifetime of adventure by his older cousin,…
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Sir John Pirie
Sir John Pirie was a wealthy British shipping magnate at the time the South Australian Colonization Bill passed in the…
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Sir Rowland Hill
Hill Street, North Adelaide is named after Sir Rowland Hill, who was knighted in later life for his contribution to…
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton was dogged, committed, determined and some say sanctimonious in everything he did. Immediately after he personally…
