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Authority record- AU TAS UTAS SPARC R12
- Corporate body
- 1824-2016
Nineteenth-century British businessmen were interested in developing colonial resources, and the Van Diemen's Land Company was formed in May 1824 to ensure a cheap supply of wool for British factories. The colonial experience of William Sorell and Edward ... »
- Person
- 1894-1984
Vernon Victor Hickman OBE, zoologist, was born and educated in Hobart. After graduating in science from the University of Tasmania (1914) he lectured at the Zeehan School of Mines before joining the AIF during the First World War.
Upon his return, Hickman ... »
- Person
Violet Bartlett was active in Sydney's eastern suburbs in the 1920's. A. friend of anthropologist and sketcher Olive Pink, she was part of the vibrant Sydney art scene in the years between the wars. An accomplished artist her specialty was native birds. ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC RS82
- 1831-1904
Walter Dinthorn Langworthy, master mariner and captain of the 182 ton schooner "Malcolm". Married Mary Leah Lyons 26 September 1859 and had four sons, Leslie William Saul, Arnol Augustus, Chester Thomas Percival and John Walter Langworthy. He died of ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC 2015/1
- Person
- 1842-1929
Walter Robson (1842-1929) was a British Quaker who acted as secretary-companion to his cousin, Joseph James Neave (1835-1913), when the latter made a lengthy journey to Australia in the years 1867 to 1871.
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC S15
- Person
- 1910-1981
Walter William Stone (24 June 1910 – 29 August 1981), known as Wal Stone, was a noted Australian book publisher, book collector and passionate supporter of Australian literature. Walter was born in Orange, New South Wales. He spent the first 14 years of ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC W6
- Person
- 1875-1967
Walter Wilson was a designer and artist. Walter and his brother Sydney worked with their father, John Wilson at Wilson and Sons, boat builders. They built many well known sailing ketches and schooners and some steam and oil engine powered vessels. ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC H15
- Person
Walworth (Wallworth) Baguley was part of a company, Tasmania Colonising Association, formed to find land in Australia for the sole purpose of developing it with the help of Canadian and British immigrants. They found the required land in Tasmania, 20 ... »
Ware Street Undenominational Mission
- Corporate body
- 1932-1941
A mission hall was opened in Ware Street (later Feltham Street) by a small band of workers. An evening service and Sunday school held every Sunday and a Christian Endeavour Society and other activities took place some evenings. Poor homes were visited ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC F3
- Corporate body
- 1815-1842
Waterloo was a merchant ship built at Bristol, England in 1815. On her first voyage she suffered a short-lived mutiny. She then made one voyage under charter to the British East India Company (EIC). She made four voyages transporting convicts from ... »
- Person
- 1792–1832
Wauba Debar (1792–1832) was a female Aboriginal Tasmanian. Her grave is a historic site located in the east coast Tasmanian town of Bicheno, which memorialises her rescue of two sealers, one of them her husband, when their ship was wrecked about 1 km ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC A1
- Person
- 1915-1970
Wilfred Asten (1915-1970) acting headmaster of the Friend School 1949-1951. Born in North-West England, Wilfred Asten moved to Tasmania in 1939 where he taught at the Burnie High School and later was appointed Vice-Principal of the Hobart Teachers’ ... »
- Person
- 1874-1952
W.H.Hudspeth (1874-1952) son of Rev. Canon Francis Hudspeth and Lucy Hudspeth (nee Cogle), Grandson of John Maule Hudspeth (1792-1837), graduated B.A. at Melbourne University and was called to the Tasmanian Bar in 1898. He practiced for 30 years in ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC M9
- Person
- 1933-1984
William Albert Cowan was born in 1908 in Dunedin, New Zealand, and educated at Otago Boys' School and the University of Otago, graduating with first class honours in Latin and French despite struggling financially. He gained a further degree in classics ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC RS81
- Person
- 1845 - 1930
Born 15 February 1845 at 'Poplarville', Risdon Road, New Town, Hobart. Died 27 July 1930 at Devonport, Tasmania aged 85 years. Son of Henry Pearce (1813-1901) and Mary Ann Heath (1826-1904). Captain of the barque "Wild Wave"
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC A7
- Person
- 1820-1874
William Archer (1820-1874) the second son of Thomas Archer (1790-1850) of Woolmers, Longford, studied architecture in England and after returning to Van Diemen's Land, designed among other buildings, the Hutchins School in Hobart, Mona Vale, at Ross, ... »
- Person
- 1788-1879
William was the eldest son of William Archer of Hertfordshire. He arrived in Tasmania in 1821 on the ship Aguilar, where he settled at Brickendon - the second of the families two most famous homesteads - and began his farm with 30 merino sheep he had ... »
- Person
- 1806-1886
William Bell Leake was the eldest son of John and Elizabeth Leake. After establishing Rosedale John Leake left its management to his eldest son William, while he acted as accountant in the Derwent Bank in Hobart, in 1830 John Leake resumed the ... »
- Person
- 1904-1992
William Bryden (1904-1992), museum director, geneticist, and educator, was born on 30 December 1904 at Martinborough, New Zealand, son of Scottish-born James Bryden, bootmaker, and his English-born wife Amanda Helen, née Syvret. William attended Kaiapoi ... »
- Person
- 1801–1853
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC W9Ph
- Person
- c1827-1916
William Cawston was a professional photographer, gilder and framer. At 17 he was transported to Australia on a seven-year sentence in 1845 and in 1856 opened a business in Launceston, Tasmania, as a picture frame maker. By 1862 he had a photographic ... »
- Person
- 1769-1851
William Clark (1769-1851) arrived in Tasmania in 1824 and settled near Bothwell at Cluny, and later acquired other property on the River Jordan at the Hunting Ground, later called Mauriceton. He had formerly served in the British army, was taken prisoner ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC RS120
- Person
- 1811-1890
William Colenso (1811 - 1890) printer, missionary, explorer, naturalist, politician and a corresponding member of the Tasmanian Association. For more information see: https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1c23/colenso-william
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC W17
- Person
- 1837-1925
Born on 5 Mar 1837 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was baptised on 30 Mar 1837 in St Davids, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He died on 6 June 1925 in Devonport, Tasmania. He was buried in Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia. He was a School Master.
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC RS121
- Person
- 1883-1950
Professor William Dakin was the Technical Director of Camouflage during WW2. Dakin was an academic from Sydney University, a zoologist with particular knowledge of Australian flora and fauna and the means by which living creatures escape their enemies. ... »
- Person
- 1804-1871
Sir William Thomas Denison (1804-1871), governor-general, was born on 3 May 1804 in London, son of John Denison and his second wife Charlotte, née Estwick. In April 1846 Gladstone dismissed Sir John Eardley-Wilmot from Van Diemen's Land and appointed ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC S3
- Person
- 1846-1940
William Ebenezer Shoobridge (1846-1940) of Bushy Park, J.P., fruit and hop grower and farmer, was the eldest son of Ebenezer Shoobridge (1820-1901) who purchased Valleyfield, New Norfolk, in 1851 for hop growing.
W.E. Shoobridge was educated at Horton ... »
William Edward Lodewyk Hamilton Crowther
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC M9
- Person
- 1884–1981
William Edward Lodewyk Hamilton Crowther (1884–1981), studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, served as an army medical officer before, during and for many years after the First World War and practised medicine (specialising in obstetrics) in ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC F6
- Person
- 1885 - 1960
W. E. Fuller was born in Hobart on 26 December 1885. His father was manager of Walch's book department, which W. E. Fuller joined in 1904. He later worked for a short time for Angus & Robertson in Sydney, where he met Frances Ruby Evans, whom he ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC H13
- Person
- 1798-1872
William Gore Elliston (1798-1872), schoolmaster and editor, was born on 17 October 1798 at Bath, England, the eldest son of Robert William Elliston, actor and theatre manager. After education at Martley, Worcestershire, he was admitted a pensioner at ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC R6
- Person
- 1838-1923
Robertson was a conveyancer, he died on July 8, at Kismet, Bellerive, Tasmania. He was the eldest son of William Consett Robertson, formerly of Hobart, late of Melbourne.
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC B17
- Person
- 1788-1853
William Grant Broughton (1788-1853), Bishop of Australia, was appointed Archdeacon of Australia 1829 and became Bishop in 1836. For more information see http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/broughton-william-grant-1832
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC G5
- Person
- 1800-1868
William Gunn (1800-1868), police magistrate and Superintendent of Prisoners' Barracks, was born in Newry, Ireland, son of Lieut. William Gunn and Margaret (Wilson). After service in the British army, he came to Tasmania in 1822 and received a grant of 400... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC RS106
- Person
- 1835-1906
William Harris (or Harrison c. 1835-1906) son of Thomas Harris, born in Leicestershire, U.K., served in the 14th Foot Regiment, 1858-1869, and settled in Tasmania in 1869 and married Martha Noone, Free Church, Hobart Town, 29 April 1869. The confusion ... »
- Person
- 1800-1877
William Henry Browne (1800-1877), Church of England clergyman, was born at Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, the eldest son of Henry Browne, barrister of Ballinvoher. He was educated at Charleville school and at Trinity College, Dublin, (B.A., 1822). He ... »
- Person
- 1885-1951
William Henry Nicholls was an Australian amateur botanist, authority on, and collector of Australian orchids. An accomplished photographer and watercolourist, he contributed almost 100 articles on orchids to The Victorian Naturalist, many of which ... »
- Person
- 1852-1941
William Henry Williams (1852-1941), scholar and critic, was born on 7 November 1852 at Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England, son of William Williams, merchant's clerk, and his wife Amelia Burley, née Arden. He attended Newark Grammar School and entered ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC H6
- Person
- 1808-1881
William Henty (1808-1881), the fifth of the nine sons of Thomas Henty (1775-1839) came to Tasmania in 1837 to join his father and brothers who had emigrated earlier. He travelled out with his wife, Susannah Matilda (Camfield), and a baby son who died on ... »
- Family
- 1833-1919
William Holyman (1833-1919) arrived in Tasmania as a seaman in 1854. In 1861 he purchased his first ship, the schooner "Cousins", and traded along the north coast of Tasmania, with his son Thomas. The business expanded into a fleet of trading ketcches, ... »
- Person
- 1844-1891
Son of William Johnstone and husband of Mary Elizabeth Groom (1841-1911) took over the firm after his fathers death and went into partnership with his brother in law Stuart Eardley Wilmot
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC M11
- Person
- 1805-1874
William John Turner Clarke (1805-1874), pastoralist and landowner, was born on 20 April 1805 in Somerset, England, the second son of William Clarke of St Botolf, Aldgate, London, and his wife Sarah, née Turner, of Weston Zoyland, near Wells, Somerset. A ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC J2
- Person
- 1820-1874
William Johnstone (1820-1874) arrived in Tasmania with his wife Martha on the barque "Arab" in November 1841 and by August 1842 he had secured a lease on a building in St John Street, Launceston and started the new business William Johnstone, Merchant. ... »
- Person
- 1853 - 1926
Mariner and trader active in the late 19th century between Tasmania, Western Australia, New Zealand and England. Born in Leicestershire, England. Migrated to Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) in 1860.
- Person
- 1879-1956
With by far the longest tenure of all 31 UTAS Vice-Chancellors and Chancellors, William Joshua Tilley Stops was a home-grown administrator. Born in 1879, he attended the first lectures held at the University of Tasmania in 1894, when there were 13 ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC M13
- Person
- 1833-1912
William Knibb Morris (1833-1912), was born at Loughton, Essex UK, son of Thomas Morris (1800-1874) and Sarah (Allard 1803-1876). He and his father sailed in the Boomerang from Liverpool to Melbourne in 1855 and arrived in Hobart by the SS City of Hobart ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC RSA/B20
- Person
- 1861–1930
Sir William Lamond Allardyce (1861-1930), governor, was born on 14 November 1861 at Bombay, India, son of Colonel James Allardyce, military surgeon, and his wife Georgina Dickson, née Abbott. Allardyce was a career British civil servant in the Colonial ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC DX27
- Person
- 1853-1918
William Levitt Wells (1853-1918), and his wife Elizabeth (Bessie) Lucy Lidbetter (1852-1925), both Friends (Quakers), sailed for Tasmania in 1884 on the SS. Bonnington with their children, Edith (1879-1917), Frank (1880-1957), Arnold (1882-1938) and baby ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC 2023/1
- Person
- 1861-1925
William Lewis May, otherwise known as Lewis, who was born in 1861 in South Australia, the eldest son of William and Mary May (nee Cotton) and together with the rest of his family created a fine orchard and homes in Sandford. He had many interests such as ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC S14
- Person
William Manifold and Mary, née Barnes, of Courthouse Farm, Bromborough emigrated to to Van Diemen's Land with their family, arriving 8 July 1831. Purchased ninety acres (36 ha) and built Kelso House
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC M9
- Person
- 1892 – 1962
Professor Kyle was highly involved in positions of leadership in the University, Saint Andrew’s Church and the wider community. He gave public lectures, wrote and reviewed newspaper articles and was well known as a broadcaster. He served as Dean of the ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC X13
- Person
- 1801-1843
Inkeeper of Mawles Hotel, Baghdad married Mary Ann Wallas at Hobart Town in 1830 died 6 September 1843 at age 42.
- Person
- 1868-1946
William Nevin Tatlow Hurst (11 April 1868 – 24 December 1946) attended the Hobart Town High School and Christ's College Hobart (before it became a university college) but did not pursue a university education. As a school-leaver aged 17, he chose to ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC X8 O6
- Person
- 1912-1999
William Nicolle Oats (1912–99), educator, author and peace activist, was born in Kapunda, South Australia, educated as a teacher at Adelaide University, and was headmaster of The Friends' School, Hobart (1945–73). He also taught at Adelaide High (1935–38)... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC S14
- Person
Prominent gentleman, member and on the committee of the Tasmanian Turf Club, subscribed to the building of a Presbyterian Church in Launceston c 1823. He also owned a sheep property at Norfolk Plains.
On His Majesty's Service: George Augustus Robinson's ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC RS38
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On the 30th October 1822 Pike boarded the ship 'Thalia', under the command of Captain Munk, at Gravesend, with his wife Nancy and five children on a voyage to V.D.L. He was granted 1000 aces in 1823 for the quid-rent or sum of Twenty shillings on the ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC W15
- Person
- 1802-1891
William Richard Wade was a Baptist minister appointed Superintendant of the Church Missionary Society Mission press at Paihia and arrived at the Bay of Islands New Zealand with William Colenso in 1834. Wade devoted most of his time to missionary work ... »
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- 1840–1887
William Robert Giblin (1840-1887), premier and judge, was born on 4 November 1840 at Hobart Town, son of William Giblin, clerk of the registrar of deeds and deacon in the Congregational Church, and his wife Marion, née Falkiner. He was educated by his ... »
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- 1796?-1864
William Seccombe (1796?-1864), surgeon, was born at Plymouth, England, the son of a surgeon. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1818 and next year a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries.
In May 1824 he arrived in Hobart Town in ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC S17
- Person
- 1800 -1860
William Sorell (1800 -1860) was the eldest son of William Sorell (1775 -1848), who served as Lt. Governor of Van Diemen's Land 'from 1816 until May 1824, and Louisa Matilda (Cox), who was separated from her husband in 1807 and remained in England with ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC S17
- Person
- 1800-1860
William Sorell was the eldest son of William Sorell (1775-1848), who served as Lt. Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1816 until May 1824, and Louisa Matilda (Cox), who was separated from her husband in 1807 and remained in England with their seven ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC S17
- Person
- 1800-1860
William Sorell (1800-1860), registrar, was the eldest son of Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell who, when taking his appointment in Van Diemen's Land, had left his family in England. Sorell junior resented his father's disregard of his career and wrote ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC RS70
- Person
- 1825-1915
William Strutt (1825-1915) was born in Devon, England and studied art in Paris. He arrived in Melbourne on the HMS Culloden, in July 1850. Strutt published engravings in the first issue of the Illustrated Australian Magazine and designed, engraved or ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC RS75
- Person
- 1786–1839
William Thomas Lyttleton (1786?-1839), soldier and settler, was a distant connexion of the well-known Lyttelton family of Hagley Hall, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England. He used the family crest on his silver, gave a family name, Westcote, to one of ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC X13
- Person
- 1797-1854
William Thomas Parramore (1797-1854), public servant, was born on 30 September 1797, the eldest son of George Parramore and Patience, née Allen, of Wetmore Hall, Derbyshire, and received a legal training at Gray's Inn, London. His father, a farm-agent ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC RS98
- Person
- 1841–1918
William Vincent Legge (1841-1918), soldier and scientist, was born on 2 September 1841 at Cullenswood, near St Marys, Van Diemen's Land, son of Robert Vincent Legge (d.1891) and his wife Eliza Graves, née de Lapenotierre; his grandfather was Michael ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC DX6
- Person
- n.d.
- Person
- 1861-1933
Scholar, engineer, historian and bibliophile. He became an important benefactor of the Tasmanian Public Library (later the State Library of Tasmania) when, in 1923-24 and 1933, he presented his collection of books to that institution, thereby ... »
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- 1843-1903
William Watchorn Perkins, born on 23 May 1843, was one of 10 children born to John and Emmely Perkins (nee Watchorn). John was a draper and importer and began the emporium, Perkins and Watchorn, in Liverpool Street, Hobart.
William Watchorn Perkins became ... »
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- 1778- 1863
Captain William Wood, (1778- 1863) born at Hastings, England, buried at St Andrews Anglican Cemetery, Longford, Tasmania. Captain Wood served with a British Expeditionary Force in the West Indies and was present at the capture of the French island ... »
- AU TAS UTAS SPARC W6
- Corporate body
- 1870-
Wilson and Sons, shipbuilders, was founded by John Wilson (1842–1912), who began building wooden boats in 1863, at his home in Cygnet. The first boat was the Huon Belle, launched in 1864.
- Person
- 1905–2005
Winifred Mary Curtis AM, botanist and teacher, was born in London and migrated to Tasmania in 1939. She was employed at the University of Tasmania, only the second woman appointed, until her retirement in 1966. Her major publications were Biology for ... »
Workers' Educational Association
- Corporate body
- 1903-1929
Workers' Educational Association (WEA) was formed in England in 1903 by Albert Mansbridge to provide higher education for the working class, whose needs had been abandoned by mechanics' institutes and then the University Extension movement. Mansbridge, ... »
York Street Chapel, Launceston
- Corporate body
- 1840-?1917
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