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Boyle Travers Finniss
Boyle Travers Finniss joins the catalogue of Adelaide street names from the comparatively lowly position of Assistant Surveyor to Colonel…
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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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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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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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Edmund William Jerningham
Jerningham Street in North Adelaide is named after Edmund William Jerningham, a Roman Catholic banker of noble lineage whose family…
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Edward Geoffrey Stanley
Edward Geoffrey Stanley, otherwise known as the 14th Earl of Derby, was three times a Tory Prime Minister of Great…
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Edward George Barnard
It is easy to conclude that Edward George Barnard MP is memorialised in Barnard Street, North Adelaide simply because he…
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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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Jacob Montefiore
The name Jacob Montefiore is synonymous with Montefiore Hill in North Adelaide, upon which the highly recognisable statue of Colonel…
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James Pennington
James Pennington is one of the lesser-known figures after whom a street has been named in Adelaide. His inclusion was…
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John Abel Smith (Carrington)
Of all the streets named on 23 May 1837 Carrington Street has been one of the more difficult to research.…
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John Walbanke Childers
With the passage of the Reform Bill the numbers of young, eligible and socially responsible MPs in the Commons had…
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Josiah Roberts
Josiah Roberts is one of the more elusive of all those named in the streets of Adelaide. He drifts across…
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Lord Brougham
Brougham Place in North Adelaide is named after Lord Brougham, otherwise known as Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and…
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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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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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Pascoe St Leger Grenfell
Pascoe St Leger Grenfell is memorialised in Adelaide in one of the busiest and most popular city streets. The committee…
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Queen Adelaide
The city of Adelaide was named after Queen Adelaide, wife of King William IV, who reigned when the South Australia Act…
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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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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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Sir Henry George Ward
In the context of the colonisation of South Australia, Sir Henry George Ward is best described as a Philosophical Radical.…
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Sir James Hurtle Fisher
Hurtle Square is one of the principal squares in the central business district of Adelaide. It is named after James…
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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 George Shaw Lefevre
A prima faciecase can be made for the inclusion of the name of John George Shaw Lefevre on the streets…
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Sir John Jeffcott
Jeffcott Street, which begins atop Montefiore Hill in Adelaide and heads in a northerly direction through and around Wellington Square,…
