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Sir Richard Layton Butler
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Sir Richard Layton Butler - Son of Sir Richard Butler, Premier. Sir Richard Layton Butler was also a Premier. [On back of photograph] 'R. Layton Butler / c. 1927'.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait in seven eights view of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, G.C.M.G.,Third Baronet, who was Governor of South Australia from 29 October 1895 until 29 March 1899. He has grey hair and beard and is wearing the star and badge of the K.C.M.G. (Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George) which he was awarded in 1895. Later, in 1899, he was promoted to a Knight Grand Cross (G.C.M.G.). He was known as a courteous, commonsense Governor, who would visit gaols and other institutions and talk to the inmates. He was also interested in learning about the customs of Aboriginal people and promoting a better understanding of them by European settlers.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton in three quarter view. He wears a collar and cravat with a pin and his hair and beard are grey. He was Governor of South Australia from 29 October 1895 until 29 March 1899. He was appointed K.C.M.G. in 1895 and promoted G.C.M.G. in 1899.
Sir William Wellington Cairns
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of the subject in seven eighths view. He wears a jacket, waistcoat and cravat and has a trimmed beard, wide sideburns and moustache. He occupied various senior colonial civil service posts in the British Empire until being appointed Governor of Queensland in January 1875. He held this position for two years before becoming acting Governor of South Australia. He resigned after only eight weeks due to ill-health. [Caption on photograph] ' William Wellington Cairns, KCMG, Governor of South Australia / Stayed six months'.
Angus Cameron
[General description] This portrait shows the head and torso of the subject, who is seated. He is wearing a beard and moustache. [On back of photograph] 'Angus Cameron / Member of Committee for building first Presbyterian Church, Mount Gambier'.
John William Castine
[General description] This portrait shows Lieutenant John William Castine, seated, in front of a decorative backdrop. He is wearing wire-rimmed glasses, a three-piece suit, a stiff white collar and is holding a pair of gloves. He was a long time House of Assembly member for Wooroora, and briefly Minister of Agriculture and Education in 1893. For many years the colonel played a distinguished part in connection with the old volunteer military movement, being president of the Rifle Volunteer Force. [On back of photograph] 'Lieut. Col. J.W. Castine / 1926'.
Thomas Cawley
[On back of photograph] 'Doctor Thomas Cawley, (medical practitioner). [General description] This head and shoulders portrait is seen in three quarter view. Doctor Cawley was born in Cheshire, England. He was a Surgeon; honorary surgeon to the Orphan Home (Farr House) and the Children's Home.
James Chambers
Portrait of James Chambers.
Mrs James Chambers
Incomplete portrait of Mrs James Chambers, which appears to have been copied from a photograph. This is possibly Catherine Chambers wife of James Chambers. He was a carrier, coachline owner, copper mine owner, sheep grazier, mail carrier and patron of exploration. They lived at Carclew House Montifiore Hill, North Adelaide and later at Richmond. James and Catherine's daughters Katherine and Anna had the Katherine and Anna Reservoir named after them
James Chittleborough
[General description] Head and upper body portrait of the subject shows him partially bald with neat beard and moustache. He wears a check high- buttoned jacket. He was four years old when he arrived in Adelaide with his family and later, after a successful period of prospecting for gold became a hotelier, businessman and brewery traveller. He was a keen racing and cricket enthusiast. [On back of photograph] 'James Chittleborough Junior, / arrived in South Australia December 28th, 1836 by the ship 'Buffalo'. The following words' with the first Governor' have been struck out'.
Sir John Cockburn
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Sir John Cockburn, medical practitioner, politician and federationist. He was Premier of South Australia from the 27th June, 1889, for fourteen months before losing a no-confidence motion and handing the leadership back to Thomas Playford.
J. Colton
Opalotype portrait of J.Colton, M.P, with details emphasised with black and white overpainting.
Frederick William Coneybeer
[General description] Head and upper body portrait of Mr. Coneybeer, Trade Unionist and Politician, who started his career as a saddler and became a long serving member of the House of Assembly. He wears spectacles and a three piece suit with a watchchain at his waistcoat. He has a moustache and his strong hands are visible. [On back of photograph] 'Frederick William Coneybeer'.
Mary Ann Cooper
Portrait of a Mary Ann Cooper, shown wearing a lace trimmed wrapped dress.
George Selth Coppin
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of George Selth Coppin in three quarter view. He is wearing a dark jacket, matching waistcoat and a string tie with his grey hair worn short and face clean shaven. He was a man of many parts including comic actor, hotelier, entrepreneu, philanthropist and politician. He has been given the title 'the father of Australian Theatre'. Also founded the Old Colonists Association. [On front of photograph] 'George Selth Coppin' (Another hand) 'To the Old Colonists Association / with George Coppins compliments / Adelaide September 26, 1896'.
Hon. John Cowan
Head and upper body portrait of Hon. John Cowan in seven eighths view. He has grey hair and moustache and is wearing a collar and tie, jacket and matching waistcoat. He was a grazier and Liberal politician, entering parliament in 1910 and retiring in 1944, the longest consecutive serving politician at the time. He was awarded a knighthood on retirement. [On back of photograph] 'Hon. John Cowan'.
Thomas Coward
[General description] In this portrait Thomas Coward is leaning on an armrest, wearing a bowler hat with a spotted hatband and smoking a pipe. He arrived in South Australia in 1840 aboard the 'Fairleigh'. He was a respected bushman who became a mounted policeman, a trooper on the gold escort under Alexander Tolmer, an explorer and later a publican. [On back of photograph] 'Thomas Coward / September 1892'.
William Allen Crouch
[General description] Portrait of William Allen Crouch showing his bushy white beard and kindly face. He is wearing a woollen jacket and waistcoat with a bow tie. William Allen Crouch was one of the earliest settlers in Mount Gambier. He owned land in the MacDonnell Bay district which he surveyed and subdivided into the township he called Allendale, and named the streets after his children Edmund, William and Geraldine. He was the first man to use Mount Gambier stone for buildings. He was a storekeeper, postmaster, National Bank agent, land and shipping agent before retiring to "Lowan Homestead" at Kalangadoo. [On back of photograph] W.A. Crouch J.P. Lowan, Kalangadoo, arrived S. Aust 1845 died 5 Oct. 1899. (photographer) Charles Newling 1890-98.
Daniel Michael Paul Cudmore
Portrait of Daniel Michael Paul Cudmore.
Mrs Mary Cudmore
Portrait of Mrs Mary Cudmore, wife of Daniel Michael Paul Cudmore.
Hastings Cuningham
Portrait of Hastings Cuningham, founder of Mount Gambier. Gambiertown as it was known in early years was founded by Hastings Cuningham who in 1854 subdivided a section of seventy seven acres for the establishment of a town. [On back of photograph] Hastings Cuningham April 1883. Founder of Mt. Gambier. See Talbots - South East.
James Dunbar Dale
Full length studio portrait of James Dunbar Dale, shipping agent of Port Adelaide.
Sir Dominick Daly
Sir Dominick Daly, Governor of South Australia from October 1861 until his death in February 1868. In this portrait he is seated, in full dress uniform. The town of Daly Waters and the Daly River were named after him.
Sir Dominick Daly
Portrait of Sir Dominick Daly, seated and wearing dress uniform with brass buttons and epaulettes. He was the seventh Governor of South Australia from 4 March 1862 - 19 February 1868.
Sir Dominick Daly
This full-length studio portrait shows Sir Dominick Daly in full dress uniform with much gold braid and a plumed hat. He was Governor of South Australia from October 1861 until he died in office in February 1868.
Sir Dominick Daly
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Sir Dominick Daly in three quarter view, showing an elderly gentleman with grey mutton chop whiskers and moustache. He wears dress uniform with brass buttons and braid. He was a popular Governor whose term went from March 1862 until his death in February 1868.
Sir Dominick Daly
[General description] Upper body portrait of Sir Dominick Daly wearing formal uniform with brass buttons and epaulettes. He was a popular Governor of South Australia from October 1861 until his death in 1868. [On back of photograph] 'Sir Dominick Daly / From an illustration in the Australian Journal, p. 168 (Volume and date unknown)'
Lady Caroline Maria Daly
{General description] Full length portrait of Lady Caroline Maria Daly (nee Gore) / Presented by Miss L.L. Ayers.
Sir Samuel Davenport
[General description] Portrait of Sir Samuel Davenport seated, wearing his K.C.M.G. regalia. A patrician figure, he wears his grey hair and beard trimmed. He arrived in Australia in the early 1840s and became a prominent figure in colonial South Australia. He was a prominent landowner, agriculturalist and later a parliamentarian. He was active in public life in the colony being elected to a number of positions in the agricultural, horticultural and geographical societies and was a keen grower of grapevines and olives at his property in Beaumont. He was knighted in 1884 and in 1886 appointed K.C.M.G. and given an honorary doctorate by the University of Cambridge.
Sir Samuel Davenport
[General description] Full length studio portrait of pioneer Sir Samuel Davenport, a man of many parts: grazier, stock breeder, company director agriculturalist and Member of Upper House. He was knighted in 1884 and appointed K.C.M.G. in 1886.