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Harriet Adelaide Stirling
Harriet Adelaide Stirling (15 April 1878 – 19 May 1943) was a South Australian philanthropist. History Harriet was born in Great Cumberland street, London, the eldest daughter of Jane Stirling née Gilbert (1848–1936), and her husband Edward C. Stirling, M.B., F.R.C.S., both Australian-born, and brought to Adelaide when barely three years old. She was educated privately at their home in Mt Lofty, and had art lessons, under Mary Anstie Overbury (died 1926), and became interested in several philanthropic causes, particularly those dealing with orphans and children of indigent families, gaining more knowledge and experience during her several trips to Britain, Europe and America. State Children's Council In 1886 the Destitute Persons Act of 1881 was amended to incorporate a separate honorary body, the State Children's Council, to oversee provisions made for bringing up children committed to State institutions, still a major issue despite the success of the Boarding Out Society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward C
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy and Ned. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Hone
Lucy is an English feminine given name derived from the Latin masculine given name Lucius with the meaning ''as of light'' (''born at dawn or daylight'', maybe also ''shiny'', or ''of light complexion''). Alternative spellings are Luci, Luce, Lucie, Lucia, and Luzia. The English Lucy surname is taken from the Norman language that was Latin-based and derives from place names in Normandy based on Latin male personal name Lucius. It was transmitted to England after the Norman Conquest in the 11th century (see also De Lucy). Feminine name variants *Luiseach ( Irish) *Lusine, Լուսինե, Լուսինէ (Armenian) *Lučija, Лучија (Serbian) *Lucy, Люси (Bulgarian) *Lutsi, Луци (Macedonian) *Lutsija, Луција (Macedonian) *Liùsaidh (Scottish Gaelic) *Liucija (Lithuanian) *Liucilė (Lithuanian) *Lūcija, Lūsija ( Latvian) *Lleucu (Welsh) *Llúcia (Catalan) *Loukia, Λουκία ( Greek) *Luca ( Hungarian) *Luce (French, Italian) *Lucetta (English) *Lucette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Webb Nicholls
Elizabeth Webb Nicholls (21 February 1850 – 3 August 1943) was a key suffragist in the campaign for votes for women (also called ' suffrage') in South Australia during the 1890s. She took on several high-profile roles in the capital of South Australia, Adelaide and was President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of South Australia, one of the most prominent organisations in the successful campaigns which made South Australia the first of the Australian colonies to grant women the right to vote in 1894. Background Nicholls was born on 21 February 1850 in Rundle Street, Adelaide to parents Samuel Bakewell, grocer, and his wife Mary Ann, née Pye. Following her mother's death when she was just three years old, Nicholls spent some years living with relatives in England before returning to Adelaide. Her father remarried, his new spouse being Mary Ann's sister Eliza Hannah. Nicholls herself married warehouseman Alfred Richard Nicholls on 2 August 1870, having one dau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justices Of The Peace
A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the same meaning. Depending on the jurisdiction, such justices dispense summary justice or merely deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions. Justices of the peace are appointed or elected from the citizens of the jurisdiction in which they serve, and are (or were) usually not required to have any formal legal education in order to qualify for the office. Some jurisdictions have varying forms of training for JPs. History In 1195, Richard I ("the Lionheart") of England and his Minister Hubert Walter commissioned certain knights to preserve the peace in unruly areas. They were responsible to the King in ensuring that the law was upheld and preserving the " King's peace". Therefore, they were known as "keepers of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Louisa Tomkinson
Samuel Tomkinson J.P. (25 April 1816 – 30 August 1900) was a South Australian banker and politician. He was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1885 to 1894, representing Southern District, and from 1897 to 1900 representing Central District. History Tomkinson was born in Denbighshire, Wales, and served as a clerk in a Liverpool shipping office, before working in the North and South Wales Bank, first as teller, and rapidly rose through the ranks to become Director. In 1850 he accepted the position of Manager of the Bank of Australasia in Sydney. In 1851 he transferred to Adelaide, replacing Marshall Macdermott, whose daughter he married in 1853. They initially lived on King William Street, but sometime before 1860 acquired "Mangona" at 9 Blackburn Drive, Crafers, close to Summit Road, Mount Lofty, which became their summer residence and later, as "St Barberie" owned by C. T. C. de Crespigny and family. Around the time he arrived in Adelaide, the gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Teesdale Smith
Henry Teesdale Smith (22 December 1858 – 25 February 1921) was an Australian businessman and politician who was prominent at various times as a timber merchant, railway builder, and Pastoral farming, pastoralist. He served in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1901 to 1904. Smith was born in Merino, Victoria, to Ellen (née Teesdale) and George Smith.Henry Teesdale Smith – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2016. He attended Hamilton and Alexandra College, Hamilton College, and after leaving school began working for a local railway contracting firm. Smith set up his own railway contracting business in 1888, and in 1893 moved to Wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Galway
Marie Carola Franciska Roselyne Galway, Lady Galway, CBE, DStJ (5 January 1876 – 29 June 1963), née Blennerhassett, was a British charity and civic worker and advocate for women's rights. She was married to Sir Henry Galway, Governor of South Australia. Biography She was born at Mayfair, London, the only daughter of two leaders of the English Liberal Catholic Movement, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Irish baronet and parliamentarian, and his wife, Countess Charlotte Julia de Leyden, a biographer and historian from Bavaria, whom he had met when attending the First Vatican Council.''The Past Revisited'' She attended private schools in Germany, France and Switzerland and read extensively in six languages. Her first marriage was on 28 November 1894 to French biologist Baron Raphael d'Erlanger who had a laboratory at the University of Heidelberg. They had a daughter and a son before he died in 1897 and she returned to England, where she worked for the sick and destitute, and helped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Cross
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a Humanitarianism, humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million Volunteering, volunteers, members and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering. Within it there are three distinct organisations that are legally independent from each other, but are united within the movement through common basic principles, objectives, symbols, statutes and governing organisations. History Foundation Until the middle of the nineteenth century, there were no organized or well-established army nursing systems for casualties, nor safe or protected institutions, to accommodate and treat those who were wounded on the battlefield. A devout Calvinism, Calvinist, the Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant traveled to Italy to meet then-French emperor Napoleon III in June 1859 with the intention of discussing difficulties in conducting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodville, South Australia
Woodville is a suburb of Adelaide, situated about northwest of Adelaide city centre. It lies within the City of Charles Sturt. The postcode of Woodville is 5011. Woodville is bound by Cheltenham Parade to the west, Torrens Road to the north, Port Road to the south and Park Street to the east, excluding the area of Cheltenham Park Racecourse. The population was 2,180 at the 2021 Australian census. The Church of St Margaret of Scotland, on the corner of Port and Woodville Roads, is a state heritage-listed building, and there are many other buildings of historical and architectural signficance. History 19th century Before the colonisation of South Australia in 1836, the land now called Woodville was occupied by the Kaurna people. The Woodville area is believed to have been settled owing to its location more or less halfway between the Adelaide city centre and Port Adelaide. The first building recorded here was an inn called "Halfway House", near the later Woodville Hotel, which o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Peters, South Australia
St Peters is an inner-eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. The area was first settled in 1838, with allotments sold to investors in the South Australia Company. It was originally a separate town and was named after the Church of England's school of Saint Peter, St Peter. The nearby school, now commonly known as St Peter's College, Adelaide, St Peter's College, was relocated to its current site in 1854 on of land in what is now known as Hackney, South Australia, Hackney. St Peters Post Office opened on 1 November 1886. It was formerly the seat of its own municipality, the Corporate Town of St Peters, but since 1997 has been part of the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters. The historic St Peters Town Hall and attached 1911 banquet hall are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. The East Adelaide Primitive Methodist Church was established in 1883. It became East Adelaide Methodist Church of Australasia, Methodist chur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mareeba Babies Home
Mareeba is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba in Far North Queensland, Australia. Between 2008 and 2013, it was within the Tablelands Region. The town's name is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning ''meeting of the waters''. Geography The town is above sea level on the confluence of the Barron River, Granite Creek and Emerald Creek. The town's main street is the Mulligan Highway which branches off from the Kennedy Highway when coming in from Cairns (63.3 km; 40 miles) away passing localities such as Speewah, Kuranda and Barron Gorge. The Tablelands railway line enters the locality from the north ( Biboohra), passes through the town, and exits to the west (Chewko). The locality is served by the following railway stations (from north to south): * Floreat railway station, now abandoned () * Mareeba railway station () * Turkinje railway station, now abandoned () The Lotus Glen Correctional Centre is located in Arriga, 14 km; 9 miles outs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The News (Adelaide)
''The News'' was an afternoon daily tabloid newspaper in the city of Adelaide, South Australia, that had its origins in 1869, and finally ceased circulation in 1992. Through much of the 20th century, '' The Advertiser'' was Adelaide's morning broadsheet, ''The News'' the afternoon tabloid, with '' The Sunday Mail'' covering weekend sport, and ''Messenger Newspapers'' community news. Its former names were ''The Evening Journal'' (1869–1912) and ''The Journal'' (1912–1923), with the Saturday edition called ''The Saturday Journal'' until 1929. History ''The Evening Journal'' ''The News'' began as ''The Evening Journal'', witVol. I No. Iissued on 2 January 1869. From 11 September 1912Vol. XLVI No. 12,906 it was renamed ''The Journal.'' News Limited was established in 1923 by James Edward Davidson, when he purchased the Broken Hill ''Barrier Miner'' and the Port Pirie ''Recorder''. He then went on to purchase ''The Journal'' and Adelaide's weekly sports-focussed ''Mail'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
