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  2. Archer Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Archer%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Archer Family. Woolmers in 1919 (ALMFA, SLT). Four sons of Hertfordshire miller, William Archer (1754–1833), established themselves in Van Diemen's Land. Thomas Archer MLC (1790–1850), arrived in Sydney in 1812. Appointed to the Commissariat

  3. Matthew Brady

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Matthew%20Brady.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Matthew Brady. James McCabe, Matthew Brady and Patrick Bryant, 1826 (AOT, PH30/1/4144). Matthew Brady (1799–1826), bushranger, was born of Irish parents in England, and in 1820 was transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing. In 1822 he was sent

  4. Charles Davis

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Charles%20Davis.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Charles Davis. Charles Davis' Hobart shop, c 1887 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Charles Davis (1824–1913), convict, transported for theft, on his release in 1847 began an ironmongery business in Hobart. An excellent businessman, he presided over

  5. Henry Hellyer

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Henry%20Hellyer.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Henry Hellyer. The Mersey River: difficult terrain for a surveyor (AOT, PH30/1/2224). Henry Hellyer (1790–1832), explorer and surveyor, was one of the first officers of the Van Diemen's Land Company, the principal explorer of north-western Tasmania

  6. Henry Hopkins

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Henry%20Hopkins.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Henry Hopkins. Henry Hopkins with his family at his residence, Summerhome, Moonah (AOT PH30/1/5461). Henry Hopkins (1787–1870), businessman and philanthropist, was a woolclasser before emigrating from England in 1822 with his wife Sarah and his

  7. Miller Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Miller%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Miller Family. Brisbane Street Chapel, taken in 1905 when it was the hall for the newer Congregational church left (AOT, PH30/1/3697). Frederick Miller (1808–62) was born in London and was ordained in the Congregational church. In response to

  8. Thomas Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Thomas%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Thomas Family. Jocelyn Henry Connor Thomas (1780–1862) and his brother Captain Bartholomew Boyle Thomas (1785–1831) were Anglo–Irish gentry who emigrated after a land-reclamation venture failed. Jocelyn arrived in 1824. He acquired Everton at

  9. George Washington Walker

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Walker%20George.htm
    25 Jun 2012: George Washington Walker. George Washington Walker (AOT, PH30/1/4131). George Washington Walker (1800–59), missionary and businessman, was an English Quaker who in 1828 answered a call from James Backhouse to be his secretary-companion on a

  10. George Brooks

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/George%20Brooks.htm
    25 Jun 2012: George Brooks. George Vickery Brooks (1877–1956), Tasmanian Director of Education from 1920 until 1945. Despite economic difficulties, Brooks and his senior officers successfully introduced many ideas for which Tasmanian education became known.

  11. Town Planning

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Town%20planning.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Town Planning. Town planning, the conscious intervention by government into the orderly growth of urban centres, aims to improve health, ensure efficient land use, protect the environment and facilitate economic development. Town planning began in

  12. Newton Barber

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Newton%20Barber.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Newton Barber. Horace Newton Barber (1914–71), botanist (PhD London, Doctor of Science Cambridge, FRS, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science), was foundation Professor of Botany at the University of Tasmania from 1947 to 1963. Tall (over 2

  13. Kenneth Binns

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Kenneth%20Binns.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Kenneth Binns. Kenneth Binns (left) as a member of the Tasmanian Industrial Mission to Britain, 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/3601). Kenneth Johnstone Binns (1912–1987), economist, was born in New South Wales, and studied at Melbourne University and Harvard.

  14. Victor Burley

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Victor%20Burley.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Victor Burley. Up-to-date new machinery at Cadbury in 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/9055). Victor George Burley (1914–2002), engineer, was one of Tasmania's most celebrated engineers, and will be remembered for his contributions to the development of science

  15. Stephen Cheek

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Stephen%20Cheek.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Stephen Cheek. Stephen Cheek (1853–82), rural evangelist. His Congregationalist parents arrived in Tasmania in 1855, eventually settling at Rosevale. Around 1876, Cheek became convinced of the need for adult baptism. He was baptised by the

  16. Charles Gould

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Charles%20Gould.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Charles Gould. Mount Darwin, named by Charles Gould (AOT, PH30/1/4848). Charles Gould (1834–93), geologist. After working with the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Gould was appointed the first Geological Surveyor in Tasmania (1859–69). In an

  17. Louise Lovely

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Louise%20Lovely.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Louise Lovely. Louise Nellie Lovely (née Carbasse, 1895–1980), film star and producer, was born in Sydney, illegitimate. In around 1911 she starred in nine film melodramas, and with her husband Wilton went to Hollywood in 1914 and became a star.

  18. John Marshall

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/John%20Marshall.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Marshall. John Marshall (1796?–1876), cricketer. Born in England, Marshall brought considerable cricket expertise with him when he arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1832. He scored heavily in club cricket in the 1830s and 1840s and, despite his

  19. Tamar Estuary

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tamar%20estuary.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Tamar Estuary. AS Murray, 'Bay – Tamar River', 1900 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). The Tamar Estuary is one of the major estuary systems of the southern Australian marine faunal region. It is the estuary of the North Esk and South Esk Rivers which

  20. Fenton Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Fenton%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Fenton Family. Loetitia Casey, 'Fenton Forest', 1850s? (ALMFA, SLT). Two Anglo–Irish families, cousins, settled in the Derwent Valley and Forth. Michael Fenton (1789–1874) arrived in 1829, developed Fenton Forest, Glenora, and was a member of

  21. Gibson Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Gibson%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Gibson Family. The Gibson family's prize ram, Prince Albert, 1887 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). The Gibson Family came Tasmania in 1804, when David Gibson arrived as a convict, but soon he was granted land near Perth and Evandale, and in 1811 he and
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