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  2. David Burn

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/David%20Burn.htm
    25 Jun 2012: David Burn. David Burn (c 1799–1875), settler and writer, joined his mother in Hobart in 1826, bought land at New Norfolk, and wrote The bushrangers, the first Australian drama to be performed on stage, in Edinburgh in 1829. In 1836 he returned to

  3. John Bowen

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/John%20Bowen.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Bowen. TG Gregson, 'John Bowen and his party arriving at Risdon Cove', c 1860 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). John Bowen (1780–1827), naval officer and superintendent, was born in Devon. He began his naval career in 1794 and arrived at Port

  4. William Thomas Denison

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/WT%20Denison.htm
    25 Jun 2012: William Thomas Denison. The triumphal arch erected in Hobart to welcome Denison in 1851 (ALMFA, SLT). William Thomas Denison (1804–71), governor, was born the third son of John Denison and his wife Charlotte (née Estwick). He was educated at Eton

  5. William Sorell

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sorell%20gov.htm
    25 Jun 2012: William Sorell. William Sorell (AOT, PH30/1/111). William Sorell (1773–1848), lieutenant-governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1817 to 1824. After assuming office his first duty was to restore order due to a bushranging crisis. The popular

  6. Harry Vernon Biggins

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/HV%20Biggins.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Harry Vernon Biggins. Hobart High School when Biggins was headmaster (AOT, PH30/1/506). Harry Vernon Biggins OBE (c 1894–1969), headmaster and public campaigner for state secondary education. 'HV' taught at Hobart and Launceston High Schools, then

  7. Thomas Daniel Chapman

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/TD%20Chapman.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Thomas Daniel Chapman. TD Chapman (Parliament of Tasmania). Thomas Daniel Chapman (1815–84), merchant and politician, was Tasmania's first Treasurer after self-government. This first ministry was short-lived, largely because of the increases in

  8. Edmund Dwyer-Gray

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Dwyer-gray.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Edmund Dwyer-Gray. Edmund Dwyer-Gray (AOT, PH30/1/5122). Edmund John Chisholm Dwyer-Gray (1870–1945), politician, journalist and grandson of reformer Caroline Chisholm, was born in Ireland, and was also the grandson of Daniel O'Connell's

  9. Robin Gray

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Robin%20Gray.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Robin Gray. Robin Gray (Parliament of Tasmania). Robin Trevor Gray (b 1940), politician, is the most successful Liberal premier to date, governing for just over seven years (May 1982 to June 1989). He won government in 1982, five months after

  10. Walter Lee

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Walter%20Lee.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Walter Lee. Walter Lee (Parliament of Tasmania). Walter Henry Lee (1874–1963), wheelwright, farmer and politician, was born at Longford. After leaving school, he went into his father's wheelwright business. He was the member for Wilmot in the

  11. John Henry Butters

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/JH%20Butters.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Henry Butters. John Henry Butters CMG, MBE (1885–1969), engineer. Born in Hampshire, he graduated in Engineering Science, and in 1911 was appointed Engineer-in-Chief of the Hydro-Electric Power and Metallurgical Company to develop the Great
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