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F. E. H. W. Krichauff
Friedrich Edouard Heinrich Wulf Krichauff (15 December 1824 – 29 September 1904) was a politician in colonial South Australia. Krichauff was born in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, the son of Carl Krichauff, a judge of the Supreme Court of the Duchy of Schleswig, and his wife Julie, ''née'' von Bertouch. Having passed through the State colleges of Schleswig and Husum, Krichauff served three years as an apprentice at the botanic gardens in connection with the University of Kiel. In 1846 he matriculated at the University of Berlin, and passed first class at examinations in Kiel. As a result, he was allowed a stipend by the Danish Government to travel as gardener and botanist; but the war of 1848 prevented him from enjoying this privilege. Krichauff went to South Australia in December 1848, and settled at Bugle Ranges in the Adelaide Hills, east of the city of Adelaide. For many years he was the chairman of the District Council of Macclesfield, as well of the Distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 million people. Its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 33,233. South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states, as well as the Northern Territory; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria, and to the south by the Great Australian Bight.M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwood, South Australia
Norwood is a suburb of Adelaide, about east of the Adelaide city centre. The suburb is in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters, whose predecessor was the oldest South Australian local government municipality. History Before British colonisation of South Australia and subsequent European settlement, Norwood was inhabited by one of the groups who later collectively became known as the Kaurna peoples. Early settler Edward Stephens, who arrived in the colony in 1839, wrote: "Norwood and Kent Town were unknown then. The site of the present Norwood was then a magnificent gum forest, with an undergrowth of kangaroo grass, too high in places for a man to see over; in fact persons lost their way in going from Adelaide to Kensington in those days, through attempting a short or near cut across the country". Norwood is named after Norwood, then a village south of London. The new village east of Adelaide was first laid out in 1847. The former City of Kensington and Norwood was the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Townsend (mayor)
William Townsend (1821 – 25 October 1882) was a leading auctioneer, Mayor of Adelaide from 1864 to 1866, and a South Australian politician. In 1874 he established an institution for deaf and blind children which was named Townsend House. Early years Townsend was born in the London Borough of Southwark, and worked assisting his brother, a potato salesman, and subsequently as a clerk. He married Emma Slade at St Pancras on 25 December 1852, and soon after set sail for Adelaide. He, his wife and child arrived in South Australia aboard the Dutch ship ''Fop Smit'' on 2 August 1853. Emma died soon after arrival. He subsequently married Jane Hooper. Migration to South Australia At first he was employed as a boot salesman, and subsequently opened a business as a boot-maker. On the advice of F.J. Botting, he became an auctioneer, gaining experience with several Adelaide firms. He helped found Townsend, Botting & Kay with F. J. Botting and William Kay. Ultimately he became a lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rogers (Australian Politician)
William Rogers (22 July 1818 – 26 August 1903) was a politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia. History William Rogers, a builder and stonemason, emigrated from Cornwall to South Australia on the ''Platina'', arriving in July 1839. He settled in the Sandergrove district, and was responsible for a large number of constructions in the area, including John Dunn's flour mill at Mount Barker. His brother Joseph also emigrated, joining him in 1847. He acquired some property and began breeding sheep. When William Bowman left the Finniss district around 1878, Rogers purchased his property "View Bank" and later had a share in Portee station on the River Murray near Blanchetown and another at Swan Reach. He made his elder son manager (later owner) of Finniss, and gave Portee and Swan Reach stations to younger son Edwin. They sustained heavy losses in the 1890s drought, but survived and had largely recovered financially at the time of his death. He was a member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dunn (miller)
John Dunn Sr. (13 February 1802 – 13 October 1894) was a flour miller in the early days of the colony of South Australia; a parliamentarian, philanthropist and a prominent citizen of Mount Barker, South Australia. Career He was born in the parish of Bondleigh, Devon, the son of a small farmer. At the age of 10 he was working as a servant, then for seven years was apprenticed to a miller at North Tawton. He was then appointed manager of a steam mill in Bideford, Devon and in 1836 owned his own mill at Monkleigh, some 6 km to the south. On the suggestion of his brothers, who had emigrated earlier, he, his wife and four children, left for Australia on the ''Lysander'', arriving at Port Adelaide on 6 September 1840.Dianne Cummings'' Lysander'' 1840, Pioneers And Settlers Bound For South Australia State Library of South Australia, retrieved 26 March 2016 He found employment with Borrow & Goodiar, then purchased land near his brother's property at Hay Valley (near Nairne), w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Mount Barker
Mount Barker was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1857 to 1902. Mount Barker was also the name of one of the sixteen districts in the unicameral South Australian Legislative Council The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the House of Assembly. It sits in Parli ..., which existed from July 1851 to February 1857; John Baker was the elected representative. The town of Mount Barker is currently represented by the safe Liberal seat of Kavel. Members References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mount Barker Electoral districts of South Australia 1857 establishments in Australia 1902 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Carr (Australian Politician, Born 1819)
John Carr (21 September 1819 – 10 February 1913) was a politician in colonial South Australia. History Carr was born at Conisbrough, Yorkshire, a son of William Carr, who had a small farm at Styrrup from Doncaster, and was educated at Tickhill in that county, and worked on his father's farm. He emigrated to Australia in 1862 on the ''Merchant Prince'', which brought him to Melbourne, and thence to Adelaide on the ''Admella'', arriving on 17 July 1859 (a month later the ''Admella'' was wrecked with tragic consequences). He purchased at Dashwood's Gully, where he grew wheat and ran dairy cattle for 20 years, then sold up to live at Blackwood. Seventeen years later he took up on the Nullarbor Plain with Capt. Delissa and several others. They sold up later at a small profit, and Carr moved to Port Adelaide, where he served on the boards of several companies, and local chairman of the Corporation of South Australian Copper Mines. He was for several years chairman of the Distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commissioner Of Public Works (South Australia)
The Commissioner of Public Works was a member of Cabinet of the Government of South Australia. Originally created for the Finniss Ministry on 24 October 1856, there were 63 holders of the public works portfolio. It was known as Commissioner for Public Works for most of its existence, however since the Playford Government in the 1960s, it was known as Minister for Works or Public Works. The longest holder was Malcolm McIntosh, a member of the Liberal Federation/Liberal and Country League and a minister in the Butler and Playford governments, who held the portfolio on two separate occasions for a total of 23 years and 45 days. The last holder was Kym Mayes, a member of the Labor Party and a minister in Lynn Arnold Lynn Maurice Ferguson Arnold, AO (born 27 January 1949) is an Anglican priest and a former Australian politician, who represented the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, serving as Premier of South Australia between 4 Septem ...'s gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Colton (politician)
Sir John Blackler Colton, (23 September 1823 – 6 February 1902) was an Australian politician, Premier of South Australia and philanthropist. His middle name, Blackler, was used only rarely, as on the birth certificate of his first son. Background and early career Colton, a son of farmer William Colton (died 10 July 1849) and his wife Elizabeth Colton, née Blackler (died 1888), was born in Devon, England. He arrived in South Australia in December 1839 aboard ''Duchess of Northumberland'' with his parents and siblings, who settled at McLaren Vale and started a vineyard. Colton, however, found work in Adelaide, and at the age of 19 began business for himself as a saddler. He was shrewd, honest and hard-working, and his small shop eventually developed into a large and prosperous wholesale ironmongery and saddlery business, John Colton and Company, which became Harrold, Colton & Company in 1889, then in 1911 Colton, Palmer and Preston Ltd., at the Topham Street corner of Currie S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finke River Mission
Hermannsburg, also known as Ntaria, is an Aboriginal community in Ljirapinta Ward of the MacDonnell Shire in the Northern Territory of Australia, ; west southwest of Alice Springs, on the Finke River, in the traditional lands of the Western Arrarnta people. Established as a Lutheran Aboriginal mission in 1877, linguist and anthropologist Carl Strehlow documented the local Western Arrernte language during his time there. The mission was known as Finke River Mission or Hermannsburg Mission, but the former term was later used to included a few more settlements, and from 2014 has applied to all Lutheran missions in Central Australia. The land was handed over to traditional ownership in 1982 under the ''Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976'', and the area is now heritage-listed. Geography Hermannsburg lies on the Finke River within the rolling hills of the MacDonnell Ranges in the southern Central Australia region of the Northern Territory. It is within the jurisdiction of the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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