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Alfred Mason (1837-1895) was an Anglican priest in Australia. [1]
Mason was educated at St Augustine's College, Canterbury. He served incumbencies at New Town, Tasmania and Evandale, Tasmania. [2] He was Archdeacon of Hobart from 1888 until his death. [3]
Sandy Bay is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, located immediately south of the central business district, and adjoining the suburb of Battery Point. Sandy Bay is bounded on the east by the Derwent River, and has several beaches along the shore, the main beaches with public access are Nutgrove Beach and Long Beach.
Sir Neil Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, was Premier of Tasmania on three occasions. He was also a member of the first Australian federal ministry, led by Edmund Barton.
The Royal Hobart Hospital is a public hospital in the Hobart CBD, Tasmania, Australia. The hospital also functions as a teaching hospital in co-operation with the University of Tasmania. The hospital's research facilities are known as the Royal Hobart Hospital Research Foundation. Also close to the hospital site is the Menzies Research Institute.
Sir James Willson Agnew was an Irish-born Australian politician, who was Premier of Tasmania from 1886 to 1887.
William Lodewyk Crowther FRCS was an Australian politician, who was Premier of Tasmania from 20 December 1878 to 29 October 1879.
Thomas Bock was an English-Australian artist and an early adopter of photography in Australia. Born in England he was sentenced to transportation in 1823. After gaining his freedom he set himself up as one of Australia's first professional artists and became well known for his portraits of colonists. As early as 1843 he began taking daguerreotypes in Hobart and became one of the earliest commercial photographers in Australia.
The Cathedral Church of St David in Hobart is the principal Anglican church in Tasmania, Australia. The dean is the Very Reverend Richard Humphrey.
Whaling in Australian waters began in 1791 when five of the 11 ships in the Third Fleet landed their passengers and freight at Sydney Cove and then left Port Jackson to engage in whaling and seal hunting off the coast of Australia and New Zealand. The two main species hunted by such vessels in the early years were right and sperm whales. Humpback, bowhead and other whale species would later be taken.
The Royal Society of Tasmania (RST) was formed in 1843. It was the first Royal Society outside the United Kingdom, and its mission is the advancement of knowledge.
Richard Deodatus Poulett-Harris was an educationalist in England and Tasmania.
Sir Robert George Crookshank Hamilton KCB, was the sixth Governor, and the Commander-in-Chief of the then British colony of Tasmania from 11 March 1887, until 30 November 1892, during which time he oversaw the ministries of two Tasmanian premiers, Sir Philip Fysh and Henry Dobson.
John Watt Beattie was an Australian photographer.
William Charles Piguenit was an Australian landscape painter.
Vansittart Island, also known as Gun Carriage Island, is a granite island with an area of 800 hectares. The island is part of Tasmania's Vansittart Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group.
Sir William Lambert Dobson was an English-born Australian politician, a Leader of the Opposition and Chief Justice of Tasmania, (Australia).
Sir Alfred Dobson was a Solicitor-General and Attorney-General of Tasmania.
Philip Tennyson Cole, generally known as Tennyson Cole, was an English society portrait painter in both oils and watercolours, who first achieved fame in Australasia and South Africa.
Frederick Taylor Whitington was an Anglican churchman, Archdeacon of Hobart 1895–1927.
Mary Grant Roberts was an Australian zoo owner. Roberts owned Hobart Zoo from when it opened in 1895 until her death in 1921. The zoo was closed in 1937.
William Henry Simmonds was an English newspaperman whose varied career took him finally to Tasmania, Australia, where he was editor of the Hobart Mercury for 18 years.