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Sir John George Shaw Lefevre
A prima facie case can be made for the inclusion of the name of John George Shaw Lefevre on the…
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Sir John Morphett
At the first big promotional rally in Exeter Hall in London on 30 June 1834, John Morphett stood before more…
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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 Richard Davies Hanson
Sir Richard Davies Hanson was knighted by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1869 towards the end of a long…
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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…
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Sir William Hutt
William Hutt MA MP (later Sir William) is arguably one of the most neglected figures in the South Australian colonial…
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Thomas Bewes Strangways
Strangways Terrace in North Adelaide is named after Thomas Bewes Strangways, one of the junior members of the Street Naming…
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Thomas Gilbert
Thomas Gilbert, a loyal and faithful believer in the colony established according to the Wakefield principle, was the first colonial…
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Thomas Hallifax
One of the lesser-known streets in Adelaide is Halifax Street, which runs east/ west in the south-west quadrant of the…
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William Alexander Mackinnon
Mackinnon Parade, North Adelaide, was named after William Alexander Mackinnon MP, the Tory member for Dunwich (1830) and later a…
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William Glegg Gover
Gover Street is in the greater section of the North Adelaide precinct and runs east by north-east off Jeffcott Street…
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William Kermode
William Kermode, a leading pastoralist in early nineteenth-century Tasmania, is arguably a gratuitous selection for the streets of Adelaide, covering…
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William Wolryche Whitmore
In Adelaide William Wolryche Whitmore’s name is perpetuated in one of the six city squares, along with Queen Victoria, Colonel…
