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  2. Roy Sharrington Smith

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Smith%20Sharrington.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Roy Sharrington Smith. Roy Sharrington Smith (1892–1971), architect, whose practice spanned the Arts and Crafts, Art Deco and Modernist eras, and who led the revival of public interest in historic conservation. He wrote numerous articles and two
  3. Norfolk Islanders

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/N/Norfolk%20Islanders.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Norfolk Islanders. Where some Norfolk Islanders settled: the New Norfolk area (AOT, PH2/1/26). Norfolk Islanders were those settled in Norfolk Island from 1788, mainly convicts and soldiers. They married and raised families, living by farming. As
  4. Gilbert Robertson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Robertson%20Gilbert.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Gilbert Robertson. Gilbert Robertson (1794–1851), black colonist and newspaper editor, was the son of a West Indies planter and his slave mistress, raised and educated by his well-connected grandfather in Scotland. Robertson arrived in Van
  5. Tertiary Colleges

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tertiary%20colleges.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Tertiary Colleges. A decision to institute a binary tertiary education system saw the establishment in 1972 of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education at Mount Nelson, Hobart, in addition to the University of Tasmania. Practical subjects like
  6. Margaret McIntyre

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Margaret%20McIntyre.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Margaret McIntyre. Margaret Edgeworth McIntyre OBE (1886–1948), community leader and politician, was born at Maitland, the elder daughter of Professor Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David, geologist and explorer, and Lady Caroline David. Margaret
  7. Public Executions

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Public%20executions.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Public Executions. The death mask of cannibal Alexander Pearce, taken after he was executed (AOT, PH30/1/2722). Public Executions began in 1806, when Thomas England of the New South Wales Corps was the first person to be executed in Van Diemen's Land
  8. Princess Melikoff

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Princess%20Melikoff.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Princess Melikoff. Princess Melikoff (1893–1988), philanthropist, was born Pauline Curran, a favoured and fortunate child in a middle-class merchant family in Hobart. After her father's death, and past the age where a young woman should be married,
  9. James 'Philosopher' Smith

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Smith%20philosopher.htm
    25 Jun 2012: James 'Philosopher' Smith. Mt Bischoff mine (AOT, PH30/1/75). James 'Philosopher' Smith (1827–97), prospector and mining investor, sparked Tasmania's mining industry, which invigorated its economy and widened its economic and political base. Born
  10. Reformed Churches of Australia

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Reformed%20churches.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Reformed Churches of Australia. The Reformed Churches of Australia is the name of the church established by post-war Dutch immigrants of the Reformed faith in Australia. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Dutch Reformed Church. The first
  11. Chandlers Nursery

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Chandlers%20Nursery.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Chandlers Nursery. Sandy Bay in 1905: Chandlers Nursery is probably at the right (AOT, PH30/1/2753). William Charles Chandler (1863–1944) gained experience as an apprentice at the Hobart Botanical Gardens before in 1888 establishing a nursery on
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