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Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm
Pulteney Street is the counterpoint of Morphett Street on Colonel William Light’s plan of the city of Adelaide. It runs…
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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 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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Colonel Robert Torrens
Robert Torrens’ accomplishments by most standards were formidable. He was a writer of more than ninety books, a decorated military…
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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 Gibbon Wakefield
For some 150 years Edward Gibbon Wakefield has confounded the city fathers of Adelaide, and some contemporary writers still don’t…
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George Fife Angas
Euphemistically and eulogistically described as the ‘Father of South Australia’, George Fife Angas still speaks to us through the church…
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George Grote
Grote and Wakefield streets are paired together in the city of Adelaide and provide the central east/west axis and points…
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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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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 Wright
Wright Street is in the south-west quadrant of the City of Adelaide and is named after John Wright, one of…
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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,…
