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  2. Oliffe Richmond

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Richmond%20Oliffe.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Oliffe Richmond. Robert Oliffe Gage Richmond (1919–77), internationally acclaimed expatriate sculptor, was born in Hobart and studied art at the Hobart Technical College from 1937 to 1941. At ballet classes and wrestling matches he observed the

  3. James Backhouse

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/James%20Backhouse.htm
    25 Jun 2012: James Backhouse. James Backhouse (1794–1869), missionary, was a Yorkshire Quaker who with George Washington Walker travelled extensively in the Australian colonies, investigating the conditions of convicts and Aborigines. Arriving in Hobart in 1832

  4. Dunbabin Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Dunbabin%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Dunbabin Family. The Dunbabin family's first member arrived in Tasmania in 1830, when John Dunbabin, a 24-year-old farm labourer and a convict from Marchwiel, North Wales, arrived in Hobart. He was assigned to Henry Bilton, a Hobart merchant, who

  5. Robert Knopwood

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/Robert%20Knopwood.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Robert Knopwood. Robert Knopwood's grave at St Matthew's church, Rokeby (AOT, PH30/1/2767). Robert Knopwood (1763–1838), clergyman, was the son of a gentleman farmer in Norfolk. The family struggled against debts and Robert's only inheritance was

  6. Nursing Mothers' Association

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/N/Nursing%20mothers.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Nursing Mothers' Association. The Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia (Australian Breastfeeding Association from 2001) was formed by six mothers in 1964, to promote and support breastfeeding. The Tasmanian branch began in 1971. Unusually for

  7. Stanley Burbury

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Stanley%20Burbury.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Stanley Burbury. Burbury and Sir William Crowther at the opening of the Narryna Folk Museum, 1957 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Stanley Charles Burbury (1909–95), governor. The first Tasmanian governor of Australian birth, Burbury was born in Perth

  8. Robert Cosgrove

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Robert%20Cosgrove.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Robert Cosgrove. Robert and Gertrude Cosgrove (AOT, PH30/1/3577). Robert Cosgrove (1884–1969), politician, was born at Tea Tree, the fourth of eight children of Michael and Mary Ann Cosgrove. He attended local state schools and St Mary's Catholic

  9. Brian Harradine

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Brian%20Harradine.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Brian Harradine. Brian Richard William Harradine (b 1935), union official and politician, was born at Quorn, South Australia. In 1959 he left the PMG (Engineering Division) and came to Tasmania, where he worked in a number of small trade unions.

  10. Diego Bernacchi

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Diego%20Bernacchi.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Diego Bernacchi. The Bernacchi family on the verandah of their house on Maria Island, c 1890 (ALMFA, SLT). Angelo Guilio Diego Bernacchi (1853–1925), entrepreneur, was born in Italy. In 1884 he moved to Darlington, the former convict settlement on

  11. Arthur Drysdale

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Arthur%20Drysdale.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Arthur Drysdale. Wrest Point hotel, 1950 (AOT, PH30/1/3482). Arthur James Drysdale (1887–1971), entrepreneur, rose from humble beginnings to become a self-made millionaire. His father ran a sawmill and shop at Dover, and Arthur, inflicted with

  12. Dorothy Edwards

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Dorothy%20Edwards.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Dorothy Edwards. Launceston when Dorothy Edwards was mayor (AOT, PH30/1/5191). Dorothy Edna Annie Edwards CBE (née Fleming, b 1907), community activist. Educated at Deloraine primary school, Launceston High School and the University of Tasmania, in

  13. Michael Mansell

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Michael%20Mansell.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Michael Mansell. Michael Mansell (b 1951), Aboriginal activist. Born in northern Tasmania, Mansell's Aboriginal heritage is Trawlwoolway on his mother's side and Pinterrairer on his father's side, both from the north-east of Tasmania. Mansell

  14. Casimaty Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Casimaty%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Casimaty Family. Bill Casimaty, Senate candidate 1975 (AOT, PH30/1/5051). The Casimaty Family first visited Australia when Georgios Kasimatis (1866–1959) worked in Sydney, 1891–96. He returned to Greece, but sent his four children to Australia.

  15. Kelp harvesting

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/Kelp%20harvesting.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Kelp harvesting. Kelp harvesting began in the 1950s, to produce algin, used industrially as an emulsifier. In 1954 the CSIRO estimated a potential yield of about 40,000 tons of dry Macrocystis per year, and a commercial license was granted in 1958

  16. Meat Production

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Meat%20Production.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Meat Production. Chas Pregnell, beef and pork butcher, Hobart, c 1888 – note carcasses hanging in the open air (W. L. Crowther library, SLT). Meat Production began for local consumption with early British settlement, but developed slowly due to the

  17. Chiniquy Affair

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Chiniquy%20affair.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Chiniquy Affair. Charles Chiniquy was a well-known Catholic priest in North America from 1833 to 1858, before being expelled and joining the Presbyterian church. He spent the next forty years lecturing around the world against the dogmas of his

  18. Irish Community

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/I/Irish%20Community.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Irish Community. Sketch of Alexander Pearce after his execution (AOT, PH30/1/2722). The Irish Community numbered few before the 1840s when transportation to New South Wales ceased. Between 1840 and 1853, 7248 Irish male and 4068 Irish female

  19. Cascade Brewery

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cascade%20Brewery.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cascade Brewery. Cascade brewery, about 1884 (ALMFA, SLT). The Cascade Brewery, Australia's oldest remaining brewery, was established by Peter Degraves in 1832 when Hobart Town's 55 licensed pubs served a population of 10,000 and vast quantities of

  20. Popular Culture

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Popular%20culture.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Popular Culture. Nineteenth-century popular culture in Bothwell (AOT PH30/1/767). The popular culture of a people reflects their society, place and time. Whether in the games and ceremonies of Aboriginal Tasmanians or in the shared sports, pastimes

  21. Surf Lifesaving

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Surf%20lifesaving.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Surf Lifesaving. A surf lifesaving carnival in the 1930s (AOT, PH30/1/8740). Surf Lifesaving came to Burnie in 1915, when Sydneysider Tom Scott introduced it to his friends. One built a surf rescue reel, another made a cork and canvas belt, and in
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