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Mabel Hardy (educator)
Mabel Phyllis Hardy (11 April 1890 – 5 October 1977) was a South Australian educator who, with Patience Hawker founded Stawell School for girls, which ran from 1927 to 1940. History Mabel was a granddaughter of Arthur Hardy (1817–1909) and Martha Hardy, née Price (1821–1904), and daughter of Herbert Mansell Hardy (1856–1927) and Miriam Isabella Hardy, née Cunningham (1855–1950). Mabel and her brother Frederick Mansell Hardy (died 1965) were twins, born prematurely, yet each was to have a long and fulfilling life. The family fortune, once considerable, was quite dissipated, and Mabel was brought up in respectable middle-class Malvern.Barbara Wall ''A Short History of Stawell School: The forgotten school on Mount Lofty'' published for Mount Lofty Districts Historical Society by Peacock Publications 2012 She was educated at a small school run by the Misses Hack, who lived opposite. She then studied in State schools in Gilles Street and Grote Street. A bursary allowed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patience Hawker
Patience Hawker (28 March 1900 – 9 August 1994) was a teacher who with Mabel Hardy co-founded Stawell School for girls in South Australia. History Patience Constance Joan Hawker was a granddaughter of George Charles Hawker (1818–1895) and Elizabeth "Bessie" Hawker née Seymour ( –1901), and daughter of Edward William Hawker MHA (1850–1940) and Mary Letitia Hawker née Stawell (1870–1938). The family had a property and residence at East Bungaree, where they were closely associated with the Wachenappee people. Patience was educated at home, then boarded at Yoothamurra school in Glenelg, followed by the Geelong Grammar School, then Frensham School at Mittagong, New South Wales. She gained her BA at Bedford College, University of London, then returned to the family home "Wachenappee" in Stirling, near the Mount Lofty Railway station (later named "Olivet House"). In 1925, she was employed at Woodlands Girls Grammar School in Glenelg, South Australia, where she found a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crafers, South Australia
The town of Crafers is in the Adelaide Hills to the south-east of Adelaide, South Australia, considered to be an outer suburb of Adelaide. History Crafers was named after David Crafer, who arrived in Adelaide in 1838 and moved to the area. With his wife he established an Public house#Inns, inn, the Sawyers Arms, in 1839 three years after British colonisation of South Australia, the colony of South Australia was created. He then built the Norfolk Arms on in 1840 with banquet seating for 150. He moved to Adelaide and sold the Norfolk Arms in 1842, at which point it was known as The Crafers Inn. A new hotel was built on the site in 1880, remaining into the 21st century as The Crafers Inn, but the original building was burned down in 1926. At the time the area at the foot of nearby Mount Lofty was known as the Tiers, infamous for being the haunt of numerous Tiersmen and woodcutters on the run from authorities in Adelaide. The historic Crafers Primary School was first established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Headmistresses
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1977 Deaths
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...n separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 – 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown Bacteria, bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst Granville rail disaster, railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1890 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony in the Horn of Africa. * January 2 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House. * January 11 – 1890 British Ultimatum: The United Kingdom demands Portugal withdraw its forces from the land between the Portuguese colonies of Portuguese Mozambique, Mozambique and Portuguese Angola, Angola (most of present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia). * January 15 – Ballet ''The Sleeping Beauty (ballet), The Sleeping Beauty'', with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Tchaikovsky, is premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia. * January 25 ** The United Mine Workers of America is founded. ** American journalist Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. February * February 5 – The worldwide insurance and financial service brand Allianz is founded in Berlin, Germany. * February 18 – The National Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Library Of South Australia
The State Library of South Australia, or SLSA, formerly known as the Public Library of South Australia, located on North Terrace, Adelaide, is the official library of the Australian state of South Australia. It is the largest public research library in the state, with a collection focus on South Australian information, being the repository of all printed and audiovisual material published in the state, as required by legal deposit legislation. As of 2025, SLSA’s current holdings exceed 4 million items which are composed and not limited to rare books, maps, manuscripts and ephemera. It holds the "South Australiana" collection, which documents South Australia from pre-European settlement to the present day, as well as general reference material in a wide range of formats, including digital, film, sound and video recordings, photographs, and microfiche. Its OneSearch portal fosters the unification between physical and digital collections, enabling seamless discovery and remote acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fullarton, South Australia
Fullarton is an inner southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Unley. It adjoins Parkside, Unley, Malvern, Highgate and Myrtle Bank and is bisected by Fullarton Road. Fullarton is bounded by Cremorne Street, Randolph Avenue and Fullarton Road in the north, Glen Osmond Road in the east, Fisher Street, Fullarton Road and Cheltenham Street in the south and Balmoral Street, Fisher Street and Windsor Street in the west. History It was first developed by James Frew, who laid out the area in 1849, and named it after his wife, formerly Jane Fullarton. The family resided at an estate ''Malwood'' on what is now known as 11 and 13 Frew Street. Other significant historic properties include ''Woodfield'' at 78 Fisher Street and ''Penrose'' at 115 Wattle Street. Fullarton has a mix of housing styles with leafy, tree-lined streets dotted with character homes – from Victorian Villas through Edwardian, Art Deco and Californian bungalows – alongside many modern rebuil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawthorn, South Australia
Hawthorn is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, in the City of Mitcham. It is bounded to the north by Cross Road, Adelaide, Cross Road, to the south by Grange Road, to the west by Sussex Terrace and to the east by Belair Road. To the west is Westbourne Park, South Australia, Westbourne Park, and to the east is Kingswood, South Australia, Kingswood. Brown Hill Creek runs through the suburb. Hawthorn is an upper-middle-class suburb, with a median weekly income of $1,475. The median household price is the fifteenth-highest in the city, at approximately $1,012,700. Several parks are situated here, including the Mitcham Memorial Gardens and Price Memorial Oval, home of the Mitcham Hawks Football Club. The closest primary school to the suburb is Mitcham Primary School and the nearest high schools are Unley High School and Mitcham Girls High School. Private schools such as Scotch College, Adelaide, Scotch College and Mercedes College (Adelaide), Mercedes College are also close by. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Thornber
Catherine Maria Thornber (c. 1813 – 15 May 1894) was the founder of a school for girls in Unley Park, South Australia. History Catherine Maria Thornber née Rowland (c. 1813 – 15 May 1894) was born in Rodd, Herefordshire.Janet Scarfe, 'Thornber, Ellen (1851–1947)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/thornber-ellen-9253/text15431, published first in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 10 August 2016. An assertion that Robert Thornber arrived in Australia before his family is contradicted by the shipping records. She and her husband Robert Thornber ( – 28 December 1854), and their four children lived in Harpurhey, near Manchester, then emigrated to South Australia on the ''Superb'', arriving in November 1840. They settled first at Port Adelaide, then Kensington, finally a house later known as "Peliatt Villa" in Mitcham. Also on the ''Superb'' were Mrs. Thornber's parents Jane (c. 1790– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotch College, Adelaide
Scotch College is an Independent school, independent, Uniting Church of Australia, Uniting Church, co-educational, Day school, day and boarding school, located on two adjacent campuses in Torrens Park, South Australia, Torrens Park and Mitcham, South Australia, Mitcham, inner-southern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1919 out of the earlier Kyre College (1902–1918), and incorporated under an Act of Parliament in 1922, Scotch currently caters for approximately 1000 students including more than 100 boarders in Years 7 to 12. Scotch College is affiliated with the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Association of Independent Schools of South Australia (AISSA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Independent Schools Sports Association (South Australia), Independent Schools Sport Association (ISSA) and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Adelaide, South Australia
North Adelaide is a predominantly residential precinct (Australia), precinct and suburb of the City of Adelaide in South Australia, situated north of the River Torrens and within the Adelaide Park Lands. Laid out in a grid plan in three sections by William Light, Colonel William Light in 1837, the suburb contains many grand old mansions. History Surveyor-General William Light, Colonel William Light of the colony of South Australia completed the survey for the capital city of Adelaide by 10 March 1837. The survey included , including north of the River Torrens. This surveyed land north of the river became North Adelaide. North Adelaide was the birthplace of William Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971), co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915, and Emily Dorothea Pavy (1885–1967), a teacher, sociologist, researcher, and lawyer. Kumanka The Kumanka Boys' Hostel located at 206 Childers Terrace, was operated by the South Australian Government between 1946 and 1980. In 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
