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Mark Goldsack
Mark Goldsack. President. Glen Osmond Institute.
Mrs E. Goldsmith
Mrs E. Goldsmith.
Dr. Edward Goldsmith
Dr. Edward Goldsmith.
Dr. Arthur Goode
Dr. Arthur Goode, Medical practitioner.
Walter Gooch
Walter Gooch.
Thomas Goode
Thomas Goode and wife Jane.
William George Goodman
Sir William George Toop Goodman (1872 - 1961) Engineeer, later General Mananger of Municipal Tramways Trust. He sat on the Metropolitan Omnibus Board. In 1931 he chaired the Royal Commission on the South Australian Railways. He was knighted in 1932 for services to Adelaide.
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon. Poet, policeman, politician, jockey
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon was born at Fayal in the Azores where his parents lived after retiring from service in India. The fine weather suited his mother's health. Gordon was sent to England for his schooling. He arrived in Adelaide when he was twenty and worked as a mounted policeman stationed at Mount Gambier and Penola. The Rev. Julian Tenison Woods influenced his love for writing poetry and he was known for his horsemanship. After he married he bought Dingley Dell, a cottage near Port MacDonnell, where he lived for the next four years. His reputation as a bush ballad poet continued to grow after his death.
Sir David John Gordon
Sir David John Gordon.
David John Gordon
David John Gordon of the Register staff. The Register was originally known as the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register and later the South Australian Register was South Australia's first newspaper. It was first published in London in June 1936 and moved to Adelaide in 1837. He was a journalist and politician. He accompanied Clement Giles into Central Australia and became an advocate for the country's resources. He became chief of literary staff and chief of Hansard staff. He was a highly principled man with a strong personality
Sir John Hannah Gordon
Sir John Hannah Gordon.
John Hannah Gordon
The Honourable John Hannah Gordon, M.L.C., K.C, Politician and Judge. He was admitted to the Bar in 1876. Remembered as Barrister, Federationist, Judge, Local Government Councillor and Head, Member of Upper House, Solicitor, Queen's Counsel. He led and won the case for equal rights to access River Murray water. He was knighted in 1908.
Mrs. A. L. Gordon
Mrs. A. L. Gordon.
Reverend Thomas J Gore
Reverend Thomas J Gore, minister of Church of Christ.
John Goss
John Goss, pioneer of Mt Gambier.
Sir James Hay Gosse
Sir James Hay Gosse reknown footballer and rower. He became managing director of George Wills and Company Limited after fifty years employment.He also held positions on various boards He was gregarious and hospitable and much sought after for his zest and entrepreneurial skills. His grandson was Alexander Downer who entered Federal Parliament
William Christie Gosse
William Christie Gosse.
Robert Gouger
Photograph of an original painting held in the Art Gallery of South Australia of Robert Gouger. The black and white photograph was taken by the State Library of South Australia's photographic department in 1987, however, the digital image is in colour. Robert Gouger served as South Australia's first Colonial Secretary from 1836 to 1839, but was suspended on 22 August 1837 when he returned to England. He was reappointed by Gawler to Colonial Treasurer from 8 July 1839 to 15 October 1841.
Erasmus Abel Henry Gower
Erasmus Abel Henry Gower.
Mrs. E. A. H. Gower
Mrs. E. A. H. Gower.
Grace Gower
Grace Gower.
John William Gower
Reverend John William Gower.
John William Gower
Reverend John William Gower.
John William Gower
Reverend John William Gower.
George Woodroffe Goyder
[On back of photograph] 'George Woodroffe Goyder' [General description] Mr. Goyder is seated in a bench, facing the photographer. He started out as a surveyor in South Australia and the Northern Territory, rising in the Civil Service to become the Surveyor General.
George Woodroffe Goyder
[General description] George Woodroffe Goyder was one of South Australia's foremost civil servants. Born in Liverpool in 1826 he was Surveyor General from 1861-1893. He was known for his advice on every aspect of surveying, railway construction, forestry and mining. Goyder's Line of Rainfall shows land suitability of agricultural and pastoral use. [On back of photograph] no information.
George Woodroffe Goyder
George Woodroffe Goyder, a surveyor in South Australia and after a rapid rise through the civil service became Surveyor General in 1861. He is remembered for Goyder's Line of Rainfall which is used to demarcate land climatically suitable for farming from that suitable only for light grazing. Goyder led an austere and disciplined life and is remembered for his hard work and energy and his reputation of being the most efficient public servant in the colony. He is wearing an embroidered levee dress uniform with bicorn hat and ceremonial sword to which he was entitled as a high level civil servant, following the British court tradition.
George Woodroffe Goyder
George Woodroffe Goyder joined the South Australian Department of Lands, eventually becoming surveyor-general. He laid down on a map the line of demarcation between that portion of the country where rainfall has extended, and that where drought prevails. The map published in 1866 showed his rainfall line of travel with a wing sweeping east from the Murray to the Victorian border and another from Spencer Gulf far to the west. This line separated lands suitable for agriculture and lands suitable for grazing. Later he surveyed the Northern Territory for a site for the capital. He was known as the most efficient public servant in the colony
Abraham Graham
Abraham Graham.