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Plans for a memorial in Creswell Gardens were underway. Funds were collected by the memorial committee who open a competition to sculptors to design the statue.
Morphett Street was named after land agent John Morphett, an early promoter of South Australia, by a Street Naming Committee made up of the governor and 11 prominent colonists on the 23 May 1837.