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  2. Stuart Challender

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Challender.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Stuart Challender. Stuart David Challender (1947–91), conductor, was born and educated in Hobart, and decided to become a conductor on hearing Tibor Paul conducting Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony at his first concert. After studying in Melbourne,
  3. Peter Sculthorpe

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sculthorpe.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Peter Sculthorpe. Peter Joshua Sculthorpe (b 1929), composer, was raised in Launceston and studied at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium and at Wadham College, Oxford. He first came to critical notice at the Australian Composers' Seminar in
  4. Francis Simpkinson De Wesselow

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Simpkinson.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Francis Simpkinson De Wesselow. Simpkinson de Wesselow, 'Sassafras Valley V. D. L. Mount Wellington', 1848 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Francis Guillemard Simpkinson De Wesselow (1819–1906), naval officer, colonial artist in Van Diemen's Land and
  5. Corruption

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Corruption.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Corruption. A picture of rectitude: three policemen in Elizabeth Street, Hobart, in 1900 (AOT, NS1013/1/18). Corruption – adopting ethically dubious practices and breaching a position of trust, usually for money or personal advantage – has been
  6. John Gellibrand

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Gellibrand.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Gellibrand. Major-General John Gellibrand (1872–1945), the highest-ranking Tasmanian officer during the First World War. Born at Ouse and educated in Britain, Gellibrand fought with the British army in the South African War. He joined the AIF
  7. Ebenezer Shoobridge

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Shoobridge.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ebenezer Shoobridge. WE Shoobridge's home, Hawthorn Lodge at Bushy Park, c 1875 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). William Ebenezer Shoobridge (1846-1940), engineer, inventor, irrigator, sometimes parliamentarian, pillar of the community and prolific
  8. Irrigation

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/I/Irrigation.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Irrigation. Campbell Town water works, 1880 (AOT, PH30/1/4723). Once early settlers had secured a reliable supply of drinking water, the excess could be harnessed for other purposes. During the dry years of the early 1840s the practice of irrigation
  9. Osmiridium

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Osmiridium.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Osmiridium. The rugged country around the Pieman River where osmiridium was mined – mostly far from any bridge or road. (AOT, NS241/1/33). Osmiridium is a popular name for a naturally occurring alloy of the metals iridium and osmium.
  10. Slovenians

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Slovenians.htm
    25 Jun 2012: SLOVENIANS. On 4 November 1995, a freezing cold spring morning, the Slovenian Community witnessed the unveiling of a black granite plaque in the International Wall of Friendship at Hobart. At a previous function on Saturday 20 May 1995, the
  11. Philosophy and Philosophers

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Philosophy.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Philosophy and Philosophers. From 1902 to 1913 RL Dunbabin, a Tasmanian with an Oxford degree, lectured on Mental and Moral Sciences in the Department of Classics and English Literature, University of Tasmania. In 1913 Melbourne-trained E Morris
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