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  2. Jack Carington Smith

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Carington%20Smith.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Jack Carington Smith. Jack Carington Smith (1908–72), painter and watercolourist, was born in Launceston, moved to Sydney, and studied art at East Sydney Technical College with Fred Britton, Douglas Dundas and Fred Leist. A scholarship enabled

  3. Jessie Couvreur

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Jessie%20Couvreur.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Jessie Couvreur. Jessie Catherine Couvreur (née Huybers, 1848–97), the novelist 'Tasma', migrated to Hobart with her family as a girl and was largely educated by her well-read mother. In 1867 she married and moved to Victoria, but her husband was

  4. Decorative Arts

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Decorative%20Arts.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Decorative Arts. The showroon at John Campbell Potteries, Launceston, in 1952 (AOT, AB713/1/1463). Tasmania's geography, natural environment, history and the origins of its colonial occupiers have shaped the products of craftspeople, designers and

  5. Caroline Leakey

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Caroline%20Leakey.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Caroline Leakey. Simkinson de Wesselow's painting of Hobart in 1848, the year Caroline Leakey arrived there (AOT, PH30/1/403). Caroline Woolmer Leakey (1827–81), novelist and poet, was born and died in Exeter (England), and lived in Tasmania,

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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.

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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.

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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
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