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Robert Torrens

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Sir Robert Richard Torrens, (1 July 1814 – 31 August 1884) was the third Premier of South Australia and a pioneer and author of a simplified system of transferring land. [1]

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Abraham Scott

Abraham Scott (ca.1817 – November 1903) was a businessman and politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia.

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Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Alfred Marten

Sir Alfred George Marten, QC (8 November 1829 – 22 Jun 1910, St Leonards-on-Sea) was an English politician and barrister.

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Anthony Forster (Australian politician)

Anthony Forster (15 May 1813 – 13 January 1897) was a politician, financier and newspaper owner/editor in colonial South Australia.

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B. T. Finniss

Boyle Travers Finniss (18 August 1807 – 24 December 1893) was the first Premier of South Australia, serving from 24 October 1856 to 20 August 1857.

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Cambridge (UK Parliament constituency)

Cambridge is a parliamentary constituency created in 1295 represented in the House of Commons of the U.K. Parliament.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Carl Muecke (editor)

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Charles Davies (South Australian politician)

Charles Davies MD (c. 1813 – 12 February 1888) was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council.

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Charles George Everard

Dr Charles George Everard MD (1794 – 30 March 1876) was a physician, pioneer farmer and Member of the Legislative Council, in the early days of South Australia.

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Charles Sturt

Captain Charles Napier Sturt (28 April 1795 – 16 June 1869) was a British explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia.

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Chief Secretary of South Australia

The Chief Secretary of South Australia (since 1856) or Colonial Secretary of South Australia (1836–1856) was a key role in the governance of the Colony of South Australia (1836–1900) and State of South Australia (from 1901) until it was abolished in 1982.

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Cork (city)

Cork (from corcach, meaning "marsh") is a city in south-west Ireland, in the province of Munster, which had a population of 125,622 in 2016.

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County Cork

County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is a county in Ireland.

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Electoral district of City of Adelaide

City of Adelaide was an electoral district of the South Australian House of Assembly, the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the then colony of South Australia.

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Electoral district of Torrens

Torrens is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly.

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Falmouth, Cornwall

Falmouth (Aberfala) is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Francis Dutton

Francis Stacker Dutton CMG (18 October 1818 – 25 January 1877) was the seventh Premier of South Australia, serving twice, firstly in 1863 and again in 1865.

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Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League (Middle Low German: Hanse, Düdesche Hanse, Hansa; Standard German: Deutsche Hanse; Latin: Hansa Teutonica) was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe.

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Henry Ayers

Sir Henry Ayers GCMG (1 May 1821 – 11 June 1897) was the eighth Premier of South Australia, serving a record five times between 1863 and 1873.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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James William MacDonald

James William MacDonald (27 January 1811 – 1 December 1881) was a politician in colonial South Australia and served as Treasurer of South Australia.

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John Baker (Australian politician)

John Baker (28 December 1813 – 19 May 1872) was an early South Australian pastoralist and politician.

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John Bentham Neales

John Bentham Neales (13 June 1806 – 31 July 1873), frequently referred to as "J.

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John Eldon Gorst

Sir John Eldon Gorst (24 May 1835 – 4 April 1916) was a British lawyer and politician.

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John Hart (South Australian colonist)

Captain John Hart (25 February 1809 – 28 January 1873) was a South Australian politician and a Premier of South Australia.

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Judah Moss Solomon

Judah Moss Solomon (21 December 1818 – 29 August 1880)Richards, Eric, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, Melbourne University Press, 1976, pp 163-164.

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Lake Torrens

Lake Torrens is a normally ephemeral salt lake in central South Australia.

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Lake Torrens National Park

Lake Torrens National Park is a protected area located in South Australia about north of the Adelaide city centre.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1857–1861

This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1857 to February 1861.

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Mount Torrens, South Australia

Mount Torrens is a town in the eastern Adelaide Hills region of South Australia, 46 kilometres east-north-east of the state capital, Adelaide and 8 km east of Lobethal along the Onkaparinga River.

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Patrick Boyle Smollett

Patrick Boyle Smollett (1804 – 11 February 1895) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Premier of South Australia

The Premier of South Australia is the head of government in the state of South Australia, Australia.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Richard Graves MacDonnell

Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell (name in) (3 September 1814 – 5 February 1881) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer, judge and colonial governor.

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Richard Hanson (Australian politician)

Sir Richard Davies Hanson (6 December 1805 – 4 March 1876), was the fourth Premier of South Australia, from 30 September 1857 until 8 May 1860, and was a Chief Judge from 20 November 1861 until 4 March 1876 on the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia.

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River Torrens

The River Torrens is the most significant river of the Adelaide Plains and was one of the reasons for the siting of the city of Adelaide, capital of South Australia.

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Robert Torrens (economist)

Colonel Robert Torrens (1780 in Hervey Hill, Derry – 27 May 1864 in London) was a Royal Marines officer, political economist, MP, owner of the influential Globe newspaper and prolific writer.

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Sir Francis Powell, 1st Baronet

Sir Francis Sharp Powell, 1st Baronet (29 June 1827 – 24 December 1911) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1863 and 1910.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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South Australia Act 1834

The South Australia Act 1834 (4 & 5 Will. IV c. 95) is the short title of an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom with the long title: It provided for the settlement of a province or multiple provinces on the lands between 132 degrees east and 141 degrees of east longitude, and between the Southern Ocean, and 26 degrees south latitude, including the islands adjacent to the coastline.

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South Australian Legislative Council

The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia.

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South Australian Register

The Register, originally the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, and later South Australian Register, was South Australia's first newspaper.

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The Chronicle (South Australia)

The Chronicle was a South Australian weekly newspaper which evolved through a series of titles.

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Thomas Shuldham O'Halloran

Thomas Shuldham O'Halloran (25 October 1797 – 16 August 1870) was the first Police Commissioner and first Police Magistrate of South Australia.

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Torrens Bridge railway station

Torrens Bridge railway station was a short-lived railway station on the Outer Harbor line in North Adelaide.

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Torrens Building

The Torrens Building, named after Sir Robert Richard Torrens, is a State Heritage listed building on the corner of Victoria Square and Wakefield Street in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Torrens Island

Torrens Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Port River Estuary between the Port River and Barker Inlet, about northwest of the state capital of Adelaide.

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Torrens Linear Park

The Torrens Linear Park was completed in 1997 as the first of its kind developed in Australia where it is the largest hills-to-coast park.

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Torrens Parade Ground

Torrens Parade Ground (also known as the Torrens Training Depot) is a former military facility located in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Torrens Park railway station

Torrens Park railway station is located on the Belair line in suburban Adelaide in South Australia.

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Torrens Park, South Australia

Torrens Park is a mainly residential inner-southern suburb of Adelaide, incorporating some of the foothills and adjacent to the original "Mitcham Village".

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Torrens title

Torrens title is a land registration and land transfer system, in which a state creates and maintains a register of land holdings, which serves as the conclusive evidence (termed "indefeasibility") of title of the person recorded on the register as the proprietor (owner), and of all other interests recorded on the register.

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Torrens University Australia

Torrens University Australia is a private university with locations in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

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Torrens, Australian Capital Territory

Torrens (postcode 2607) is a suburb in the Woden Valley district of Canberra, Australia.

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Torrensville, South Australia

Torrensville is a suburb two kilometres west of the centre of Adelaide, South Australia.

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Treasurer of South Australia

The Treasurer of South Australia is the Cabinet minister in the Government of South Australia who is responsible for the financial management of that state's budget sector.

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Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College (Coláiste na Tríonóide), officially the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, a research university located in Dublin, Ireland.

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Ulrich Hübbe

Ulrich Hübbe LL.D. (1 June 1805David St Leger Kelly, 'Hübbe, Ulrich (1805–1892)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hubbe-ulrich-3808/text6041, published first in hardcopy 1972, accessed online 15 July 2016. – 9 February 1892) was a German immigrant to South Australia, remembered for his part in framing the Real Property Act, which led to the Torrens title system of land registration.

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United Kingdom general election, 1868

The 1868 United Kingdom general election was the first after passage of the Reform Act 1867, which enfranchised many male householders, thus greatly increasing the number of men who could vote in elections in the United Kingdom.

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United Kingdom general election, 1874

The 1874 United Kingdom general election saw the incumbent Liberals, led by William Ewart Gladstone, lose decisively, even though it won a majority of the votes cast.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victoria Square, Adelaide

Victoria Square, also known as Tarntanyangga or Tarndanyangga, is a public square in the South Australian capital of Adelaide.

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Wellington

Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara) is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with residents.

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William Younghusband

William Younghusband (1819 – 5 May 1863), sometimes known as "William Younghusband junior", was a businessman and politician in the colony of South Australia; one of the promoters of the Murray River Steam Navigation Company, which enabled Captain Cadell in 1853 to win the £4000 bonus offered by the Government of South Australia for the initiation of steam communication on the Murray.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Torrens

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