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Edward J. Pitts
Edward John Pitts (1 October 1832 – 30 December 1885) was an artist and pastoralist in the early days of South Australia, noted for founding The Levels as a sheep breeding establishment. History He was born in the North-West Provinces of India; his father was a colonel in the Indian Army, and a friend of Lord Raglan. Edward was educated for the army, receiving instruction at Edinburgh until he was about 12 years of age, and subsequently in France. Impatient of advancement, he decided to try his fortune in the young colony of South Australia, arriving at the end of 1852. His first appointment was as assistant to the Colonial Architect on 19 February 1853. On 1 July he was promoted to second assistant in the Land Office. He enjoyed some success, being one of the best draftsmen in the colony and an artist of great skill. He designed some of the handsome medals the Agricultural and Horticultural Society awarded at its earlier Shows. After leaving the Government service he we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mawson Lakes, South Australia
Mawson Lakes is a List of Adelaide suburbs, residential suburb in the City of Salisbury, Adelaide, Australia. Named in honour of Douglas Mawson, Sir Douglas Mawson, it is located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, approx. north of the Adelaide city centre, Adelaide CBD. Much of the suburb was previously known as The Levels, a sheep breeding establishment founded by artist and pastoralist Edward J. Pitts, Edward John Pitts around 1876, and also a campus of the University of South Australia. In 1998, Delfin Limited, Delfin (later acquired by, and subsumed into, Lendlease) entered into a partnership with the Government of South Australia and the City of Salisbury to redevelop most of the area into a mixed-use, largely self-contained suburb featuring housing, retail, commercial and education precincts. Similar to the large tidal lake at West Lakes, South Australia, West Lakes, Mawson Lakes features the Sir Douglas Mawson Lake, a recreation lake which is the centrepiece of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldsbrough Mort & Co
Goldsbrough Mort & Co was an Australian agricultural business. History In 1843 Thomas Sutcliffe Mort established a business which operated as auctioneers and brokers in the wool trade. The business took on partners and become known as Mort & Co. In 1847, Richard Goldsbrough founded a wool broking business in Melbourne. In 1888, R Goldsbrough & Co merged with Mort & Co to form Goldsbrough Mort & Co. In 1962 Goldsbrough, Mort & Co merged with Elder Smith & Co to form Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd. In 1981 Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd merged with Henry Jones IXL to form Elders IXL which today trades as Elders Limited. Notable buildings Prominent South Australian architect F. Kenneth Milne designed a woolstore for Goldsborough Mort at Port Adelaide. Some of Goldsbrough Mort's buildings are now heritage-listed, including: * Goldsbrough Mort Woolstore, Brisbane * Goldsbrough Mort Building, Rockhampton Legacy Goldsbrough Street in Fremantle, Western Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1832 Births
Events January–March * January 6 – Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. * January 13 – The Christmas Rebellion of slaves is brought to an end in Jamaica, after the island's white planters organize militias and the British Army sends companies of the 84th regiment to enforce martial law. More than 300 of the slave rebels will be publicly hanged for their part in the destruction. * February 6 – The Swan River Colony is renamed Western Australia. * February 9 – The Florida Legislative Council grants a city charter for Jacksonville, Florida. * February 12 ** Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands. ** A cholera epidemic in London claims at least 3,000 lives; the contagion spreads to France and North America later this year. * February 28 – Charles Darwin and the crew of arrive at South America for the first time. * March 24 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith. Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Australian Artists
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Settlers Of South Australia
A settler or a colonist is a person who establishes or joins a permanent presence that is separate to existing communities. The entity that a settler establishes is a settlement. A settler is called a pioneer if they are among the first settling at a place that is new to the settler community. The process of settling land can be, and has often been, controversial: while human migration is a normal phenomenon by itself, it has not been uncommon throughout human history for settlers to have arrived in already-inhabited lands without the intention of living alongside the native population. In these cases, the conflict that arises between the settlers and the natives (or Indigenous peoples) may result in the dispossession of the latter within the contested territory, usually violently. While settlers can act independently, they may receive support from the government of their country or colonial empire or from a non-governmental organization as part of a larger campaign. The lifes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Sheep Breeders
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Arsenal
The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich is an establishment on the south bank of the River Thames in Woolwich in south-east London, England, that was used for the manufacture of armaments and ammunition, proof test, proofing, and explosives research for the British armed forces. It was originally known as the Woolwich Warren, having begun on land previously used as a Warren (domestic), domestic warren in the grounds of a mid-16th century Tudor house, Tower Place. Much of the initial history of the site is linked with that of the Office of Ordnance, which purchased the Warren in the late 17th century in order to expand an earlier base at Gun Wharf in Woolwich Dockyard. Over the next two centuries, as operations grew and innovations were pursued, the site expanded massively. At the time of the World War I, First World War the Arsenal covered and employed close to 80,000 people. Thereafter its operations were scaled down. It finally closed as a factory in 1967 and the Ministry of Defence m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian Register
''The Register'', originally the ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register'', and later ''South Australian Register,'' was South Australia's first newspaper. It was first published in London in June 1836, moved to Adelaide in 1837, and folded into '' The Advertiser'' almost a century later in February 1931. The newspaper was the sole primary source for almost all information about the settlement and early history of South Australia. It documented shipping schedules, legal history and court records at a time when official records were not kept. According to the National Library of Australia, its pages contain "one hundred years of births, deaths, marriages, crime, building history, the establishment of towns and businesses, political and social comment". All issues are freely available online, via Trove. History ''The Register'' was conceived by Robert Thomas, a law stationer, who had purchased for his family of land in the proposed South Australian province after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan
Richard Henry FitzRoy Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan (24 May 1817 – 3 May 1884) was a British peer. Early life Somerset was born in Paris on 24 May 1817. He was the second son of FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan and Lady Emily Wellesley-Pole (daughter of William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington, and niece of the Duke of Wellington).Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 3254. His father was the ninth and youngest son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort and his wife Elizabeth Boscawen (daughter of Admiral Edward Boscawen).Heathcote, p. 267 He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. Career He went to Ceylon with Lt.-Gen. Sir Colin Campbell as his Private Secretary and was subsequently taken into the Ceylon civil service in 1841. In 1844 he was the assistant government agent of Colombo. He left the island in 1849 to become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dry Creek, South Australia
Dry Creek is a mostly industrial suburb north of Adelaide, containing significant wetlands. A substantial area was devoted to Sea salt, salt crystallisation pans until 2014, with plans to redevelop the site for housing. This housing plan, first put forward in 2008, was revived in 2013, for a proposed 10,000 homes. Salt production ceased in 2014, and in 2016 Ridley Corporation, which managed the salt pans, sold the land to Adelaide Resource Recovery. Description It is named for the Dry Creek (South Australia), Dry Creek, a stream and drain which flows through the suburb and into Swan Alley, a tidal distributary of Barker Inlet, Gulf St Vincent. It was the site of the soapworks of W. H. Burford & Sons from 1923 (adjacent to the Dry Creek railway station, and formerly used for smelting ore from Broken Hill) and a pioneering "garden suburb" for its employees, designed by W. J. Earle (who also laid out Cadbury's model town at Claremont, Tasmania). The name Burford Gardens has van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundaleer
Bundaleer Station was a pastoral lease that operated as a sheep station in South Australia. It is situated approximately south of Jamestown and north of Spalding. The property was established in 1841 by John Bristow Hughes and occupied an area of . In 1854, Charles Brown Fisher bought Bundaleer from Hughes for £31,000. By 1864 it was estimated that the property was carrying about 80,000 sheep worth over £40,000. See also *List of ranches and stations This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance. Africa * Obudu Cattle Ranch * S ... References {{Reflist Stations in South Australia 1841 establishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
