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Cranbrook, Bellevue Hill
''Cranbrook'' is a large house built at Rose Bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Built in 1859 as a private residence, the house was used as an official residence for the Governor of New South Wales and Governor-General of Australia, it is now comprises part of Cranbrook School. Private residence Robert Tooth The Rose Bay house was built in 1859 by Robert Tooth (1821–1893), one of three brothers of the well known Sydney Tooth's Brewery family. It was named after a village in Kent, England from where the Tooth Family originated. His brother Frederick, also inherited adjoining land and on this he built his house called "Buckhurst". Robert Towns In 1864 Tooth sold Cranbrook to Robert Towns who was a successful Sydney merchant, shipping company owner, the founder of the city of Townsville, Queensland and a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. He was married to Sophia Wentworth (sister to William Wentworth) and had two sons and three daughters. When ...
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Robert Tooth
Robert Tooth (28 May 1821 in Cranbrook, Kent, England – 19 September 1893 in Bedford, England) was one of three brothers of Sydney's Tooth brewery family. He built two of Sydney's grandest houses, Cranbrook House and The Swifts. Early life Robert was the first son of Robert Tooth (b.1799) and Mary Ann (née Reader), a hops merchant of Swifts Park, Cranbrook, Kent, England. His brothers were Edwin (1822–1858), Frederick (1827–1893), Rev Charles Tooth (1831-1894) and Rev Arthur Tooth (1839–1931). His uncle was John Tooth (b. 1803), Cranbrook merchant and brewer, who first migrated to Sydney in the Bencoolen in 1828 and received a 2560-acre (1036 ha) grant in Durham County, New South Wales. After John established himself as a successful merchant he opened the Kent Brewery on Parramatta Road. In August 1843 Robert and Edwin arrived in Sydney on the Euphrates. The enduring merchant and brewing firm of R. and E. Tooth began on 1 September 1843 when John leased them the br ...
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James White (New South Wales Politician)
James White (19 July 1828 – 13 July 1890) was a pastoralist, politician in colonial New South Wales, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and later, the New South Wales Legislative Council. White was best known as a racehorse owner, breeder and punter. Early life White was born in Stroud, New South Wales, the eldest son of overseer James White and Sarah Crossman. He was educated at The King's School for four years and then by the Reverend John Gregor at West Maitland. His father died in 1842 when he was aged and still at school. At the age of sixteen he was called upon to manage extensive station properties, including Edinglassie and gradually took up more and more outlying country on his own account, until he became one of the largest and most successful New South Wales squatters. On 9 July 1856 he married Emily Elizabeth Arndell at Merton, He did a fair share of work in pioneering country on the Barwon, Hunter, and Castlereagh Rivers, and was almost ...
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National Library Of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australians, Australian people", thus functioning as a national library. It is located in Parkes, Australian Capital Territory, Parkes, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ACT. Created in 1960 by the ''National Library Act'', by the end of June 2019 its collection contained 7,717,579 items, with its manuscript material occupying of shelf space. The NLA also hosts and manages the renowned Trove cultural heritage discovery service, which includes access to the Australian Web Archive and National edeposit (NED), a large collection of digitisation, digitised newspapers, official documents, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''Th ...
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William Harvey Chapman Lovely HOFWA
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ...
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Cranbrook Pond 1895
Cranbrook may refer to: People * Earl of Cranbrook, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ** Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906), British Conservative politician ** John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook (1839–1911), Conservative Member of Parliament Places Australia *Cranbrook, Bellevue Hill, historic residence in Sydney * Cranbrook, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Cranbrook, Tasmania, in Glamorgan Land District * Cranbrook, Western Australia * Shire of Cranbrook, Western Australia Canada * Cranbrook, British Columbia, a city ** Cranbrook Memorial Arena * Cranbrook (electoral district), existing from 1903 to 1963 * Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport * Cranbrook, Ontario, a pre-Confederation settlement near Listowel England * Cranbrook Castle, an Iron Age Hill fort in Devon * Cranbrook, Devon, a new town in East Devon ** Cranbrook (Devon) railway station * Cranbrook, Kent ** Cranbrook Colony, a group of artists a ...
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Cranbrook Terrace 1895
Cranbrook may refer to: People * Earl of Cranbrook, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ** Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906), British Conservative politician ** John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook (1839–1911), Conservative Member of Parliament Places Australia *Cranbrook, Bellevue Hill, historic residence in Sydney * Cranbrook, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Cranbrook, Tasmania, in Glamorgan Land District * Cranbrook, Western Australia * Shire of Cranbrook, Western Australia Canada * Cranbrook, British Columbia, a city ** Cranbrook Memorial Arena * Cranbrook (electoral district), existing from 1903 to 1963 * Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport * Cranbrook, Ontario, a pre-Confederation settlement near Listowel England * Cranbrook Castle, an Iron Age Hill fort in Devon * Cranbrook, Devon, a new town in East Devon ** Cranbrook (Devon) railway station * Cranbrook, Kent ** Cranbrook Colony, a group of artists a ...
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Cranbrook Garden 1895
Cranbrook may refer to: People * Earl of Cranbrook, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ** Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906), British Conservative politician ** John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook (1839–1911), Conservative Member of Parliament Places Australia *Cranbrook, Bellevue Hill, historic residence in Sydney * Cranbrook, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Cranbrook, Tasmania, in Glamorgan Land District * Cranbrook, Western Australia * Shire of Cranbrook, Western Australia Canada * Cranbrook, British Columbia, a city ** Cranbrook Memorial Arena * Cranbrook (electoral district), existing from 1903 to 1963 * Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport * Cranbrook, Ontario, a pre-Confederation settlement near Listowel England * Cranbrook Castle, an Iron Age Hill fort in Devon * Cranbrook, Devon, a new town in East Devon ** Cranbrook (Devon) railway station * Cranbrook, Kent ** Cranbrook Colony, a group of artists a ...
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Cranbrook Grounds 1895
Cranbrook may refer to: People * Earl of Cranbrook, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ** Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906), British Conservative politician ** John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook (1839–1911), Conservative Member of Parliament Places Australia *Cranbrook, Bellevue Hill, historic residence in Sydney * Cranbrook, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Cranbrook, Tasmania, in Glamorgan Land District * Cranbrook, Western Australia * Shire of Cranbrook, Western Australia Canada * Cranbrook, British Columbia, a city ** Cranbrook Memorial Arena * Cranbrook (electoral district), existing from 1903 to 1963 * Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport * Cranbrook, Ontario, a pre-Confederation settlement near Listowel England * Cranbrook Castle, an Iron Age Hill fort in Devon * Cranbrook, Devon, a new town in East Devon ** Cranbrook (Devon) railway station * Cranbrook, Kent ** Cranbrook Colony, a group of artists a ...
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Cranbrook Tennis Court 1895
Cranbrook may refer to: People * Earl of Cranbrook, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ** Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906), British Conservative politician ** John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook (1839–1911), Conservative Member of Parliament Places Australia *Cranbrook, Bellevue Hill, historic residence in Sydney * Cranbrook, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Cranbrook, Tasmania, in Glamorgan Land District * Cranbrook, Western Australia * Shire of Cranbrook, Western Australia Canada * Cranbrook, British Columbia, a city ** Cranbrook Memorial Arena * Cranbrook (electoral district), existing from 1903 to 1963 * Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport * Cranbrook, Ontario, a pre-Confederation settlement near Listowel England * Cranbrook Castle, an Iron Age Hill fort in Devon * Cranbrook, Devon, a new town in East Devon ** Cranbrook (Devon) railway station * Cranbrook, Kent ** Cranbrook Colony, a group of artists a ...
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Cranbrook Cottage,
Cranbrook may refer to: People * Earl of Cranbrook, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ** Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906), British Conservative politician ** John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook (1839–1911), Conservative Member of Parliament Places Australia *Cranbrook, Bellevue Hill, historic residence in Sydney * Cranbrook, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Cranbrook, Tasmania, in Glamorgan Land District * Cranbrook, Western Australia * Shire of Cranbrook, Western Australia Canada * Cranbrook, British Columbia, a city ** Cranbrook Memorial Arena * Cranbrook (electoral district), existing from 1903 to 1963 * Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport * Cranbrook, Ontario, a pre-Confederation settlement near Listowel England * Cranbrook Castle, an Iron Age Hill fort in Devon * Cranbrook, Devon, a new town in East Devon ** Cranbrook (Devon) railway station * Cranbrook, Kent ** Cranbrook Colony, a group of artists a ...
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Cranbrook Drawing Room 1895
Cranbrook may refer to: People * Earl of Cranbrook, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ** Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906), British Conservative politician ** John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook (1839–1911), Conservative Member of Parliament Places Australia *Cranbrook, Bellevue Hill, historic residence in Sydney * Cranbrook, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Cranbrook, Tasmania, in Glamorgan Land District * Cranbrook, Western Australia * Shire of Cranbrook, Western Australia Canada * Cranbrook, British Columbia, a city ** Cranbrook Memorial Arena * Cranbrook (electoral district), existing from 1903 to 1963 * Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport * Cranbrook, Ontario, a pre-Confederation settlement near Listowel England * Cranbrook Castle, an Iron Age Hill fort in Devon * Cranbrook, Devon, a new town in East Devon ** Cranbrook (Devon) railway station * Cranbrook, Kent ** Cranbrook Colony, a group of artists a ...
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