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  2. Anton Holzner

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Anton%20Holzner.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Anton Holzner. A Painters Celebration, 2005. Anton Holzner (b 1935), artist. His concern is the articulation of paint on canvas to create an imaginary spatial reality beyond the visible and material world we occupy. Vigorous painterliness and tonal
  3. David Keeling

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/David%20Keeling.htm
    25 Jun 2012: David Keeling. David Mervyn Keeling (b 1951) artist, has won recognition for his landscapes, which have become a powerful voice in the development versus conservation debate, especially within the Tasmanian context. Keeling acknowledges a debt to
  4. Amanda Howard

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Amanda%20Lohrey.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Amanda Lohrey. Amanda Lilian Lohrey (née Howard, 1947), writer and teacher of writing, was born and educated in Hobart and Cambridge University. She has taught creative writing, guest-edited Island magazine in 1994, and has published short fiction,
  5. James McAuley

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/James%20McAuley.htm
    25 Jun 2012: James McAuley. James Phillip McAuley (1917–76), poet, critic, academic, founding editor of Quadrant, was born at Lakemba, New South Wales, and educated at the University of Sydney. After war service, he lectured at the Australian School of Pacific
  6. Graeme Murphy

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Graeme%20Murphy.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Graeme Murphy. Graeme Murphy AM (b 1950), Australia's greatest and most productive choreographer, has been Artistic Director of the Sydney Dance Company since 1976. Born in Melbourne, he was educated in Launceston where he studied ballet with
  7. Edward Abbott

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Abbott%20Edward.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Edward Abbott. Silhouette of Edward Abbott (Parliament of Tasmania). Edward Abbott (1801–69), writer, was the eldest son of Edward Abbott (Deputy Judge Advocate 1815–25 and Civil Commandant of Launceston 1825–32). Founder in 1839 of the Hobart
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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.
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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.
  20. 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
  21. 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
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