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  2. Ray Groom

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Ray%20Groom.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ray Groom. Ray Groom, 1975 (AOT, PH30/1/5053). Raymond John Groom (b 1944), Liberal politician and former VFL footballer, spent nine years as federal member for Braddon (1975–84), including a brief stint as minister. Enticed into state politics in
  3. Evelyn Temple Emmett

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/ET%20Emmett.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Evelyn Temple Emmett. Tourism 1917-style: a coach outside Government House (AOT, PH30/1/5834). Evelyn Temple Emmett OBE (1871–1970), tourist director, writer, bushwalker, cyclist, skier, ballroom dancer, was born in Launceston. Both his career and
  4. Deny King

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/Deny%20King.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Deny King. Charles Denison (Deny) King (1909–91), legendary bushman, tin miner, naturalist, artist, environmentalist, lived for fifty years in the remote south-west. His love for the magnificent region and concern for its protection resulted in
  5. John Edward Mercer

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/JE%20Mercer.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Edward Mercer. John Edward Mercer (1857–1922), fifth Anglican bishop of Tasmania, was born at Bradford, Yorkshire, the son of an Anglican minister. He excelled academically and sportingly at Rossall School and Lincoln College, Oxford.
  6. Thomas Joseph O'Donnell

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/O%27Donnell.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Thomas Joseph O'Donnell. Thomas Joseph O'Donnell (1876–1949), Catholic Archdeacon, was perhaps the most colourful and aggressive Tasmanian cleric. Born in Victoria, he was ordained in 1907 and served in the parishes of Circular Head, Latrobe,
  7. Roelf Vos

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/V/Vos%20Roelf.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Roelf Vos. Roelf Vos (1921–92), businessman, was involved in the Dutch resistance during the Second World War, and afterwards opened a drapery shop. With his friend Engel Sypkes, Roelf, his wife Miep and their children emigrated to Tasmania in 1951
  8. James Backhouse Walker

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Walker%20JB.htm
    25 Jun 2012: James Backhouse Walker. James Backhouse Walker (left)in the bush with a friend, 1880s (ALMFA, SLT). James Backhouse Walker FRGS (1841–99), historian, the son of George Washington Walker, was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in
  9. Far South

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Far%20South.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Far South. Samuel Clifford, 'The Narrows at Southport', c 1873 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). The Far South was first inhabited by the Lyluequonny people, who were studied in detail by the French naturalists on the d'Entrecasteaux expedition in 1793.
  10. Tasmanian Devil

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tas%20devil.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Tasmanian Devil. Louisa Anne Meredith, 'Tasmanian Devil', 1880 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). The Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisi) provided bush dwellers with veal-like meat, but it was named by early settlers for its 'hideous appearance' and its
  11. Anzac Day

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Anzac%20Day.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Anzac Day. Anzac Day march in Hobart, 1950 (AOT, PH30/1/3322). Since 1916, the bloody 25 April 1915 landing on Gallipoli shores by Australian and New Zealand soldiers has been solemnly remembered. When a locality's war memorial was built, this
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