Sir Adye Douglas was an Australian lawyer and politician, and first class cricket player, who played one match for Tasmania. He was Premier of Tasmania from 15 August 1884 to 8 March 1886.
TheMercury is a daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. The weekend issues of the paper are called Mercury on Saturday and Sunday Tasmanian. The current editor of TheMercury is Craig Herbert.
The 30-ton sloop Rebecca was launched in 1834, built by Captain George Plummer at his boatyard on the banks of the Tamar River at Rosevears, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
Australian rules football has been played in Tasmania since the late 1860s. It draws the largest audience for any football code in the state. A 2018 study of internet traffic showed that 79% of Tasmanians are interested in Australian rules football, the highest rate in the country.
The Bank of Australasia was an Australian bank in operation from 1835 to 1951.
Henry Elmes Lette was an Australian cricketer and politician. His middle name is frequently misreported as "Elms".
The Bushrangers; or Norwood Vale is a 1834 Australian stage play by Henry Melville. It was the first play with an Australian theme to be published and staged in Australia.
Henry Hunter (1832–1892) was a prominent architect and civil servant in Tasmania and Queensland, Australia. He is best known for his work on churches. During his life was also at various times a state magistrate of Tasmania, a member of the Tasmanian State Board of Education, the Hobart Board of Health, a Commissioner for the New Norfolk Insane Asylum and President of the Queensland Institute of Architects.
On 11 and 12 February 1851, teams from Van Diemen's Land and Port Phillip District played the first cricket match between two Australian colonies, recognised in later years as the inaugural first-class cricket match in Australia. It took place at the Launceston Racecourse, known now as the NTCA Ground, in Tasmania. The match was incorporated into celebrations marking the separation of the Port Phillip District from New South Wales in 1851 as the colony of Victoria.
John Horatio Savigny was an Australian cricketer. He played thirteen first-class matches for Tasmania between 1888 and 1911.
John Gardner was a Scots-born Presbyterian minister in Adelaide, South Australia, the first incumbent of Chalmers Free Church of Scotland, now Scots Church, North Terrace, Adelaide. He later served at Launceston, Tasmania and Queenscliff, Victoria.
The Independent was a weekly English language newspaper published in Launceston, Tasmania from 1831 to 1835.
The Mount Lyell Standard was a Queenstown based newspaper in Western Tasmania, that was contemporaneous with the Zeehan and Dundas Herald. It was also known as the Mount Lyell Standard & Strahan gazette. The newspaper operated between 1896 and 1902.
Africaine was a barque launched in 1831 at Jarrow on the River Tyne in England. In 1836 she carried immigrants as part of the First Fleet of South Australia. She was wrecked on 23 September 1843.
Rev. William Henry Savigny MA was an Australian academic, born in England. His elder son, also named William Henry Savigny was a longtime master at Sydney Grammar School.
William Henry Breton was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy who wrote the memoirs Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia and Van Dieman's Land, during the years 1830, 1831,1832 and 1833, first published in 1833 and Scandinavian Sketches, or, A Tour in Norway, published in 1835. The books resulted from private visits to Australia, or New Holland as it was then known, in 1829-30 and 1832-33 and to Norway, Sweden and Russia in 1834.
The National Theatre is a historic former theatre in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
The Howson family was a show-business dynasty founded in Australia, several of whose members went on to further success in America, London and Europe.
John Philip Deane, generally referred to as J. P. Deane, was an English musician in Australia, the first organist of St David's Church, Hobart. Called "the father of music in Australia" and ".. . one of the most important early colonial musicians in [Van Diemen's Land] and [New South Wales]", his family, whose only tutor was their father, were pioneering musicians in Sydney.
