West Terrace Cemetery first appeared on the plan of which first surveyor-general of South Australia?
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West Terrace Cemetery The West Terrace Cemetery is South Australia’s oldest cemetery, first appearing on Colonel William Light’s 1837 plan of Adelaide. The 27.6 ha site is located in Park 23 of the Adelaide Park Lands just south-west of the Adelaide city centre, between West Terrace, Anzac Highway, Sir Donald Bradman Drive and the Seaford–Belair Railway Lines. Originally known as the Adelaide Public Cemetery, it is divided into a number of sections for various communities and faiths, including two Catholic areas, as well as Jewish, Afghan, Islamic and Quaker sections.
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William Light Colonel William Light (27 April 1786 – 6 October 1839) was Eurasian, an artist, naval and army officer and the first Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia. He is famous for choosing the site of the province's capital, Adelaide, and for designing the layout of its streets and parks – in the Adelaide city centre and the Adelaide Park Lands.
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William Bakewell (Australian politician) William Bakewell (ca.1817 – 25 January 1870) was a solicitor and politician in the early days of the Colony of South Australia.
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Benjamin Herschel Babbage Benjamin Herschel Babbage (6 August 1815 – 22 October 1878) was an English engineer, scientist, explorer and politician, best known for his work in the colony of South Australia. He invariably signed his name "B. Herschel Babbage" and was frequently referred to as "Herschel Babbage".
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Robert Gledden Robert John Gledden (26 December 1855 – 5 November 1927) was an English-born Australian surveyor and public benefactor.
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Alexander Lang Elder Alexander Lang Elder (18 April 1815 – 5 September 1885) was a businessman and politician in colonial South Australia.
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Charles Macfaull Charles Macfaull (1800 – 13 Dec 1846) was an early settler in the Swan River Colony, now Western Australia. He arrived in Western Australia in 1830, and is credited with having planted the colony's first vineyard, using vines brought from the Cape of Good Hope. He worked as the colony's postmaster, and in 1833 he established the colony's first successful newspaper, the "Perth Gazette and Western Australian Times", which survives today as "The West Australian".
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Ballaarat Old Cemetery Ballarat Old Cemetery is a cemetery located in the rural city of Ballarat, Victoria in Australia. The cemetery dates back to 1856, although records show burials took place in the area from the late 1840s.
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John Hill (explorer) John Hill (c.1810 – 11 August 1860) was an English explorer of South Australia and part of the European exploration of Australia. Hill was the first European to discover and traverse the Clare Valley.
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Westbourne Park, South Australia Westbourne Park is an inner southern suburb of the State capital of South Australia, Adelaide. The suburb was named after Westbourne, a village in Sussex, England, and was laid out in 1881.
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Centennial Park Cemetery Centennial Park Cemetery is a large, 40.5 hectare (or 100 acre) cemetery in the southern Adelaide suburb of Pasadena, located at along Goodwood Road. It is the largest cemetery in the southern suburbs and one of the largest in the Adelaide metropolitan area. It was opened in June 1936, during South Australia's centennial year, although the first burial was not until 1938, when there were only ten in that year. It is jointly owned by the local government areas of the City of Mitcham and the City of Unley, with a Board of Management that includes two serving councillors from each council.
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James W. Jones James William Jones (1843 – 26 April 1920) was a South Australian surveyor. He was the son of civil engineer Thomas Jones, founder of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows in South Australia. He studied at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution. He was soon working for his father on the Port Elliot to Goolwa tramway, for which his father received official criticism. He joined the State public service as a draughtsman in 1865 and was appointed Chief Surveyor then Deputy Surveyor-General in the Department of Survey and Crown Lands. He explored the area north-east of Eucla in 1880, and discovered the Kudna rockhole and catacombs, an immense network of limestone caves, lakes and underground passages under the Nullarbor Plain. He was appointed Conservator of Water in 1887 and Secretary to the Commissioner of Works in 1902. He was secretary of the South Australia branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia from its foundation in 1885 to 1894. He was elected president of the Institute of Surveyors in 1912. He was chairman and president of the Harbors and Marine Board in 1914. He was secretary of the Cheer-Up Society during the First World War.
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Henry Bloomfield (politician) Lieutenant-General Henry Keane Bloomfield (died 1 February 1870) was an English-Australian soldier and politician.
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William Storrie William Storrie ( – 19 June 1900) was a businessman and politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia.
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Archibald Michie Sir Archibald Michie {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} , (1813 – 21 June 1899) was an English-born Australian lawyer, journalist, Agent-General, Attorney-General of Victoria and politician.
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Surveyor General of Western Australia The Surveyor General of Western Australia is the person nominally responsible for government surveying in Western Australia.
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Francis MacCabe Francis Peter MacCabe (1817-27 June 1897) was a surveyor in the colony of New South Wales (later a state of Australia) in the 19th century. He surveyed and mapped the lower reaches of the Murrumbidgee, Darling and Murray Rivers in New South Wales.
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William Alcock Tully William Alcock Tully (14 March 1830 – 26 April 1905) was a Surveyor General of Queensland, (then a colony, now a state of Australia).
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Samuel Bruce Rudall Samuel Bruce Rudall (7 March 1859 – 3 January 1945) was a lawyer and politician of the State of South Australia.
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Old Sydney Burial Ground The Old Sydney Burial Ground is the site of Sydney's inaugural permanent cemetery, located near the current corner of George Street and Druitt Street. Established in September 1792, the cemetery was closed in 1820, when the Devonshire Street Cemetery (also known as the Brickfield Cemetery or Sandhills Cemetery; now Central railway station) was opened; the cemetery was deemed a threat to public health by Governor Lachlan Macquarie.
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Frank Swannell Frank Cyril Swannell (May 16, 1880 in Hamilton, Ontario - 1969 in Victoria) was one of British Columbia's most famous surveyors.
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John Helder Wedge John Helder Wedge (1793 – 22 November 1872) was a surveyor, explorer and politician in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia).