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  2. Richard Dry

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Richard%20Dry.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Richard Dry. Robert Beauchamp, 'Dry's Bluff', 1860s? (ALMFA, SLT). Richard Dry (1815–69), politician, was Tasmania's first native-born Premier and Knight of the Realm. His father, Richard Dry senior, an Irish political prisoner, came to Van

  3. Edward Curr

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Edward%20Curr.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Edward Curr. Edward Curr (1798–1850), company manager, and author of An Account of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land: Principally designed for the use of Emigrants, was born in Sheffield, England. A businessman in early Hobart, Curr also served in

  4. Errol Flynn

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Errol%20Flynn.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Errol Flynn. Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (1909–59), Hollywood movie star, was born in Hobart to Marelle and Theodore Flynn. His father's work as a zoologist often took the family away for extended periods with Errol attending numerous schools in

  5. Hudson Fysh

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Hudson%20Fysh.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Hudson Fysh. Wilmot Hudson Fysh (1895–1974), airline director, was born in Launceston. After the First World War, he and another ex-serviceman, Pat McGinness, were commissioned by the government to survey the Longreach–Darwin section of a

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    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/J/Jones%20Henry.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Henry Jones. IXL jam factory; 'IXL JAMS' can just be made out on the building right of centre (AOT, PH30/1/567). Henry Jones (1862–1926), jam manufacturer, entrepreneur and financier, was born on 19 July 1862 in Hobart, the son of John and Emma

  7. Bowes Kelly

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/Bowes%20Kelly.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Bowes Kelly. Anthony Edward Bowes Kelly (1852–1930), mining investor, born in Ireland, was educated in Deniliquin. Initially a grazier, he bought a speculative interest in the Broken Hill Proprietary mine and became one of Australia's richest men.

  8. Laurie Nash

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/N/Laurie%20Nash.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Laurie Nash. Laurence John (Laurie) Nash (1910–86), cricketer, was a talented but volatile sportsman who excelled at cricket and football in the 1930s. Born in Melbourne, he came as a teenager to Parattah with his publican father, and soon made a

  9. Captain Edward Taylor

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Taylor%20capt.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Captain Edward Taylor. Captain Taylor and his sons (AOT, PH30/1/7974). Captain Edward Taylor (1846–22), the eldest of a prominent northern Tasmanian family of mariners. Born at East Arm on the Tamar River, he became master and later owner of small

  10. King Island

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/King%20Island.htm
    25 Jun 2012: King Island. Undated postcard of Currie (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). European history began with maritimecastaways and farmers. Prospectors discovered tin, gold, rutile and one of the world's largest deposits of scheelite. Farmers found that the

  11. Tasmanian Farmers and Stockowners Association

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tas%20farmers.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Tasmanian Farmers and Stockowners Association. Farming at Malahide, Fingal (AOT, PH30/1/3966). The Tasmanian Farmers and Stockowners Association was formed in 1908 by pastoralist Albert Mansell in response to union militancy and the detrimental
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