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  2. Andrew Bent

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Andrew%20Bent.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Andrew Bent. Hobart Town, sketched by Joseph Lycett in 1821 when Andrew Bent was publishing the Hobart Town Gazette. (AOT, PH30/1/598). Andrew Bent (1790–1851), printer, publisher and editor, arrived under sentence in Hobart in 1812. He became

  3. Martin Cash

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Martin%20Cash.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Martin Cash. Martin Cash's house in Montrose (AOT, PH30/1/1459). Martin Cash, (1808–77), so-called 'gentlemandoes not deserve this reputation. Often described as a Robin Hood who robbed only the well-to-do, in narrating his story he had selective

  4. James Kelly

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/James%20Kelly.htm
    25 Jun 2012: James Kelly. Captain Kelly's cottage in Collins St (centre left with chimney), about 1930 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). James Kelly (1791–1859), mariner, explorer, sealer, whaler, harbourmaster and entrepreneur, was born at Parramatta. He began

  5. Port Arthur Penal Settlement

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Port%20Arthur.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Port Arthur Penal Settlement. Alfred Winter, 'Port Arthur', 1888 (ALMFA, SLT). Port Arthur Penal Settlement – named in honour of Lt-Governor George Arthur – began life in 1830 as a punishment-oriented timber station. With the progressive

  6. George Augustus Robinson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Robinson%20GA.htm
    25 Jun 2012: George Augustus Robinson. B Duterrau, 'G. A. Robinson with a group of Van Diemen's Land natives', 1835 – an idealised version of Robinson's activities (ALMFA, SLT). George Augustus Robinson (1788–1866), conciliator of Aborigines, was born in

  7. John Morris

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Morris%20John.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Morris. John Morris (University of Tasmania). John Demetrius Morris (1902–56), judge and university chancellor, was born in Melbourne, grandson of a Greek migrant. After graduating in Law from the University of Melbourne, he was admitted to

  8. St Michael's Collegiate School

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/St%20Michaels.htm
    25 Jun 2012: St Michael's Collegiate School. St Michael's Collegiate School, about 1940 (AOT, PH30/1/4642). St Michael's Collegiate School was founded in 1892, at the invitation of the Bishop of Tasmania, Bishop Montgomery, by an Anglican religious order, the

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Place

    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

  14. 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.

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. Wild Cattle

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Wild%20cattle.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Wild Cattle. As wild as an illustration gets: cattle near Ben Lomond, 1888 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Wild Cattle in colonial history were credited with being 'discoverers' of significant pastoral areas such as 'New Country' around Marlborough, Lake

  20. Zeehan's Silver-Lead orebody

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/Z/Zeehan%20mine.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Zeehan's Silver-Lead orebody. Zeehan's Montana mine (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Zeehan's silver–lead orebody was discovered in 1882 close to where the impressive Post Office building stands today. Frank Long, earlier associated with the development

  21. Girl Guides

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Girl%20Guides.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Girl Guides. Girl Guides marching on Commonwealth Youth Sunday, 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/3604). Following the publication of Scouting for Boys by Lord Baden-Powell in England in 1907, Tasmanian girls unofficially formed patrols in 1910. Lady Barron, wife
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