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  2. Matthew Forster

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Matthew%20Forster.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Matthew Forster. Matthew Forster (1796–1846), Chief Police Magistrate of Van Diemen's Land from 1833 to 1846, was described by Governor George Arthur as 'one of the most competent officers in the service of the government'. Primarily responsible

  3. Adult Education

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Adult%20education.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Adult Education. Domain House in Hobart, formerly the University of Tasmania, housed Adult Education headquarters for many years (AOT, PH30/1/5450). Early opportunities for adults in Tasmania to extend their education were provided by Mechanics'

  4. George Meredith

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/George%20Meredith.htm
    25 Jun 2012: George Meredith. George Meredith (1778–1856), active settler and landowner, emigrated to Tasmania in 1821. He received land grants on the east coast, where he built a home and imported livestock, and was involved inand shipbuilding. Keenly

  5. Melissa Carlton

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Melissa%20Carlton.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Melissa Carlton. Melissa Paula Carlton OAM (b 1978), paralympian, was born in South Africa and educated in Hobart. Born without a right leg, she obtained her first artificial leg at the age of one. A champion swimmer, she has won nine Olympic medals

  6. Raymond Ferrall

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Raymond%20Ferrall.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Raymond Ferrall. Raymond Alfred Ferrall (1906–2000), businessman and community leader, was a 'swampy' from Invermay. After education at Launceston Grammar, he became a journalist, then a commercial traveller with his father's grocery business,

  7. Central Plateau

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Central%20Plateau.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Central Plateau. Central Plateau scene: H Lloyd, 'Encampment at Hunters near Lake St. Clair', 1872 (ALMFA, SLT). The Central Plateau has been a place of opportunity but also of peril in the human history of Tasmania, a place where access to

  8. Cradle Mountain

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cradle%20Mountain.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cradle Mountain. Postcard of Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Earlier called Ribbed Rock, this iconic peak was renamed the more evocative Cradle Mountain by Van Diemen's Land Company surveyor Joseph Fossey. The name was due

  9. Federation Peak

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Federation%20Peak.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Federation Peak. G Collingridge and WC Piguenit, 'Arthur Range', 1888, (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Although not the highest mountain in Tasmania, Federation Peak (1224m) is a difficult climb that for decades resisted every challenger. Despite many

  10. Wilderness Society

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Wilderness%20socy.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Wilderness Society. Mount Rugby and Starvation Cove at Port Davey, taken by JW Beattie in about 1900 (AOT, PH30/1/3133). The Wilderness Society (Australia) began in Tasmania after the flooding of Lake Pedder in 1972. The Wilderness Society, with

  11. Stock Exchanges

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Stock%20exchanges.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Stock Exchanges. JW Roxburgh, member of the Launceston Stock Exchange, 1890 (AOT, PH30/1/1197). Stock Exchanges were established in Launceston in 1881 and Hobart in 1882, to provide capital to local business ventures, in particular in the mining
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