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E. W. Parish

Bond & Co., 1904, Photograph, B 16263

E. W. Parish 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.

Lieutenant Colonel Palmer

c. 1870, Photograph, B 45361

Lieutenant Colonel Palmer. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Essex Yeomanry, and was one of the South Australian Colonisation Commissioners.

James Hamilton Parr

Duryea, c. 1875, Photograph, B 23363

James Hamilton Parr, was considered one of Adelaide's most prominent auctioneers during the 1870s and 1880s. The son of a prominent Lancashire solicitor, Parr arrived in South Australia in 1854. He married Elizabeth Ann Payne on 14 April 1857. Together they had six children, Horton (1858), Magdalen (1864), Ella (1866), Frances (1868), Georgina (1872-1873), and James (1874). He died near his Aldgate home on 24 July 1906.

Charles Parrington

c. 1870, Photograph, B 2738

Charles Parrington. In 1846 he took out one of the first sheep runs on Yorke Peninsula at Oyster Bay (Stansbury).

Mr Justice Angas Parsons

Underwood & Underwood, c. 1920, Photograph, B 4060

Mr Justice Angas Parsons.

Herbert Angas Parsons

c. 1921, Photograph, B 16421

Herbert Angas Parsons.

John Langdon Parsons

c. 1903, Photograph, B 33340

John Langdon Parsons.

Fanny Pascoe

c. 1898, Photograph, B 27003

Fanny Pascoe. According to a researcher, Fanny Lucretia Pascoe was born 26 April 1865 and died 12 August 1940. Fanny was never married and had a habadashery shop in Kapunda. She is the first child of 11 children. Her parents were James Henry Pascoe, born 8 August 1839, died 12 October 1907 and Fanny Pascoe born 9 November 1843, died 10 October 1932.

Julius Augustus Pavy

c. 1890, Photograph, B 22214

Julius Augustus Pavy.

William Paxton

Gill, Samuel Thomas, 1849, Artwork, B 334

A drawing from S.T.Gill's "Heads of the People" of William Paxton, a druggist on Hindley Street. Artist's caption reads 'Throw physic to the dogs'.

Albert E.H. Peake

c. 1905, Photograph, B 33753

Albert E. H. Peake.

Archibald Henry Peake

Fruhling Studio, c. 1910, Photograph, B 10801

Archibald Henry Peake was Premier of South Australia on three occasions: from 1909-1910 for the Liberal and Democratic Union: from 1912-1915 and from 1917-1920 for the Libreral Union. He was also Treasurer and Attorney General from 1905-1909. He represented Naracoorte in the House of Assembly.

A. H. Peake

c. 1890, Photograph, B 26746

A. H. Peake.

A. H. Peake

c. 1880, Photograph, B 26747

A. H. Peake.

A. H. Peake and Family

c. 1890, Photograph, B 26748

A. H. Peake and family.

Edward John Peake

c. 1865, Photograph, B 34402

Edward John Peake.

L.W. Peake

c. 1905, Photograph, B 33755

L.W. Peake, Penola Town Clerk.

L. W. Peake

c. 1905, Photograph, B 33760

L. W. Peake, Penola Town Clerk.

Mr Peake

c. 1890, Photograph, B 38217

Mr Peake, an early Mt Gambier School Teacher.

Captain Alfred Pearce

1904, Photograph, B 49541

Captain Alfred Pearce.

Harry Edmonds Pearce

Uren, James, c. 1881, Photograph, B 39470

Harry Edmonds Pearce.

Charles Henry Pearson

Botterill, J., c. 1875, Photograph, B 7772

Charles Henry Pearson, historian, educationist, politican, journalist. Moved from England to South Australia to run a sheep property near Mount Remarkable but the drought proved too much so he moved to Melbourne where he is remembered as a university administrator, Member of the Lower House, Free Trade politician, school principal and a taxation reformer.

William Pearson

Adelaide Photographic Co., c. 1865, Photograph, B 8382

William Pearson was a surveyor with the Lands Title Office. After arriving from England in 1849 he accompanied BT Finniss to the Northern Territory. Later he surveyed the border between NSW and SA camping at what was later to be named Broken Hill. He retired from the Lands Title Office in 1902 as he was over 70 years of age. He died aged 76.