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Edward Wrench
Edward Thomas Jones Wrench (1828–1893) was an Australian businessman and auctioneer. In 1860, he co-founded the wool merchant and real estate company Richardson & Wrench alongside his partner, Robert Richardson. Wrench was born was born on 11 January 1828 in London, England to Edward and Anne Wrench. He married Mary Ann Smith on 25 January 1851. The following year, the couple moved to Sydney, Australia, where he gained employment at the Australian Joint Stock Bank. In 1860, he joined Robert Richardson to establish Richardson & Wrench. Mary Ann died in 1876. On 3 June 1879, Wrench married Theresa Clementine Throckmorton (), a widow who had five children. In 1886, Wrench acquired the entirety of the West Kingston estate, a subsection of the former Kingston Estate. He died in Woollahra, New South Wales on 26 October 1893, and was buried at St John's Ashfield. See also * Thomas Sutcliffe Mort Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (23 December 18169 May 1878) was an Australian indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auctioneer
An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder. Some exceptions to this definition exist and are described in the section about different types. The branch of economic theory dealing with auction types and participants' behavior in auctions is called auction theory. The open ascending price auction is arguably the most common form of auction and has been used throughout history. Participants bid openly against one another, with each subsequent bid being higher than the previous bid. An auctioneer may announce prices, while bidders submit bids vocally or electronically. Auctions are applied for trade in diverse contexts. These contexts include antiques, paintings, rare collectibles, expensive wines, commodities, livestock, radio spectrum, used cars, real estate, online advertising, vacation packages, emission trading, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merchant
A merchant is a person who trades in goods produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Merchants have been known for as long as humans have engaged in trade and commerce. Merchants and merchant networks operated in ancient Babylonia, Assyria, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Persia, Phoenicia and Rome. During the European medieval period, a rapid expansion in trade and commerce led to the rise of a wealthy and powerful merchant class. The European Age of Discovery opened up new trading routes and gave European consumers access to a much broader range of goods. By the 18th century, a new type of manufacturer-merchant had started to emerge and modern business practices were becoming evident. The status of the merchant has varied during different periods of history and among different societies. In modern times, the term ''merchant'' has occasionally been used to refer to a businessperson or someone undertaking activities (commercial or industrial) for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney, Australia
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2024 was 5,557,233, which is about 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City. There is evidence that Aboriginal Australians inhabited the Greater Sydney region at least 30,000 years ago, and their engravings and cultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dictionary Of Sydney
The Dictionary of Sydney is a digital humanities project to produce an online, expert-written encyclopaedia of all aspects of the history of Sydney. Description The Dictionary is a partnership between the City of Sydney, the University of Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney, the State Library of New South Wales and the State Records Authority of New South Wales. It began in 2007 with Australian Research Council funding and launched on 5 November 2009. Geographically, the Dictionary of Sydney includes the whole Sydney basin and chronologically spans the years from the earliest human habitation to the present. It also invited historical contributions from disciplines such as archaeology, sociology, literary studies, historical geography and cultural studies. Heurist, developed by the University of Sydney was the underlying technology for the project. The Dictionary of Sydney won an Energy Australia National Trust Heritage Award for Interpretation and Presentation in Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Joint Stock Bank
The Australian Joint Stock Bank was a bank in Australia. It operated from 1852 to 1910, after which it became the Australian Bank of Commerce and then was taken over by the Bank of New South Wales in 1931. History The Australian Joint Stock Bank was created in 1852 by an Act of the New South Wales Parliament. It issued its first banknotes in 1862. In 1910, the Australian Bank of Commerce was registered in New South Wales under the Joint Stock Companies Act to take over the Australian Joint Stock Bank. In 1917 it acquired the City Bank of Sydney. In 1931, the Bank of New South Wales (now Westpac) acquired the Australian Bank of Commerce. Heritage buildings Some of the former bank's buildings are now heritage-listed, including: * Australian Joint Stock Bank Building, Maryborough * Australian Joint Stock Bank Building, Townsville * Gympie Stock Exchange Gympie Stock Exchange is a heritage-listed former bank building and former stock exchange at 236 Mary Street, Gympie, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston Estate
Kingston Estate winery was established in 1979 by Sarantos and Constantina Moularadellis. It is a family-owned winery now in the care of Bill Moularadellis. He expanded the business by developing Vineyard, vineyards throughout the Riverland and sourcing grapes from farmers in Adelaide Hills wine region, Adelaide Hills, Coonawarra wine region, Coonawarra, Clare Valley wine region, Clare Valley, and Langhorne Creek wine region, Langhorne Creek. As at 2022 Kingston is Australia, Australia's sixth-largest winemaker in terms of total wine production, and eighth largest in terms of total revenue. It's Riverland winery at Kingston-on-Murray produces more than a million cases of wine each year. The winery has a milling capacity of 80,000 tonnes per year, and a storage capacity of 30 million liters. Kingston is located in one of Australia’s main wine-producing regions. About 30% of South Australia, South Australia's wine is made within a 40-kilometer radius of the Kingston winery. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woollahra
Woollahra ( ) is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woollahra is located east of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra. Woollahra is located on the traditional land of the Birrabirragal and Gadigal people of the Eora, Eora Nation. The Municipality of Woollahra takes its name from the suburb but its administrative centre is located in Double Bay. Woollahra is known for its quiet, tree-lined residential streets and village-style shopping centre. History Woollahra is located on the traditional land of the Birrabirragal and Gadigal people of the Eora, Eora Nation. When European settlers arrived in 1788, First Fleet officer Daniel Southwell translated the local Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal word (Dharug language) ''Woo-la-ra'' (also later spelt by others as ''Willarra'' and ''Wallara'') as meaning "lookout", b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral Sea, Coral and Tasman Seas to the east. The Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory are Enclave and exclave, enclaves within the state. New South Wales' state capital is Sydney, which is also Australia's most populous city. , the population of New South Wales was over 8.3 million, making it Australia's most populous state. Almost two-thirds of the state's population, 5.3 million, live in the Greater Sydney area. The Colony of New South Wales was founded as a British penal colony in 1788. It originally comprised more than half of the Australian mainland with its Western Australia border, western boundary set at 129th meridian east in 1825. The colony then also includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's Ashfield
St John the Baptist Anglican Church is an active Anglican Church of Australia, Anglican church located between Alt and Bland Streets, Ashfield, New South Wales, Ashfield, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1840, on land donated by Elizabeth Underwood, the church building is the oldest authenticated surviving building in Ashfield, having been built at the time when subdivision increased the population density sufficiently to turn Ashfield into a town. It was also the first church built along the Parramatta Road which linked the early History of Sydney#Colonial Sydney, colonial towns of Sydney and Parramatta, New South Wales, Parramatta. The earliest remaining parts of the building are one of the first Sydney designs by the colonial architect Edmund Blacket, who later became renowned for his Church architecture, ecclesiastical architecture. The expansive church grounds contain a cemetery dating back to 1845 that contains the remains of many notable Ashfiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sutcliffe Mort
Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (23 December 18169 May 1878) was an Australian industrialist who improved the refrigeration of meat. He was renowned for speculation in the local sheep, pastoral industry as well as industrial activities such as his Ice-Works in Sydney's Darling Harbour, New South Wales, Darling Harbour and dry dock and engineering works at Balmain, New South Wales, Balmain. Businessman Mort was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England in 1816. In 1878, he was associated with the AMP Limited, Australian Mutual Provident Society. In 1849, he was one of a committee, which funded a company to promote sugar growing at Moreton Bay. In 1850 Mort was a member of the Sydney Exchange Co, and in 1851 he was a director of the Sydney Railway Co. and was also involved in mining (gold, later also copper and coal) and other enterprises. In the 1850s, he opened Mort's Dock in Sydney, a business that was not as successful as he wished. In 1843, he established Goldsbrough Mort & Co, Mort & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1828 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac succeeds the Comte de Villèle, as Prime Minister of France. * January 8 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized. * January 22 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Goderich as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * February 10 – " Black War": In the Cape Grim massacre – About 30 Aboriginal Tasmanians gathering food at a beach are probably ambushed, shot with muskets and killed by four indentured "servants" (or convicts) employed as shepherds for the Van Diemen's Land Company as part of a series of reprisal attacks, with the bodies of some of the men thrown from a 60 metre (200 ft) cliff. * February 19 – The Boston Society for Medical Improvement is established in the United States. * February 21 – The first American-Indian newspaper in the United States, the '' Cherokee Phoenix'', is published. * February 22 – Treaty of Turkmenchay: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
