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Tebbutt, EJ
Tebbutt, Henry
Tebbutt, William
Technical and Working Men's College Educational institution
Technical Education and New South Wales University of Technology Act 1949 Legislation
Technical Education Branch State or colonial government
Technical gazette of New South Wales Newspaper
Technological Museum building Ultimo Educational facility
Ted Noffs Ship
Ted Noffs Foundation Philanthropic organisation
Tedbury
Teen Ranch Nonprofit or charity
Tegel, Valma
Teka, Tui
Telegraph Ship
Telephone Ship
Television Counter Measures Document
Tell Morning This Book
Tellicherry Ship
Telopea Suburb
Tempe Suburb
Tempe farm Farm
Tempe House House
Temple, William
Templeton, Janet
Ten on the Town Television program
Ten, George Soo Hoo
Tenana, Mat
Tench, Watkin
Tenison-Woods, Mary Cecil
Tennant, Kylie
Tennyson Suburb
Tennyson Point Suburb
Tennyson Swimming Club Sporting club or association
Tennyson Textiles Mills Pty Ltd Commercial organisation
Tennyson, Hallam
Tent Hospital Hospital
Tenzin Gyatso
Ternan, William
Terramerragal Reserve Reserve
Terrence, Joseph
Terrey Hills Suburb
Terry, Edward
Terry, Eleanor
Terry, Florence (Bobby)
Terry, George
Terry, Gerald
Terry, John
Terry, Richard Rouse
Terry, Roderick

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Tebbutt, EJ

Tannery operator at Canterbury.

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Tebbutt, Henry

Survivor of the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in 1834. A passenger on the ship, his older brother was a member of the crew and was killed in the wreck. In the 1870s he described himself as have been 'a mere lad' at the time of the disaster, and must have been about 17 years old. Tebbutt stayed in Australia, eventually settling in the country town of Mudgee. He was the editor of the local paper, the Mudgee Liberal, and also held the positions of Town Clerk, Mayor, and Justice of the Peace.

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Tebbutt, William

Sailor who died in the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in August 1834. His younger brother Henry who was travelling on the ship as a passenger survived the wreck.

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Technical and Working Men's College

Sydney's first technical college, which grew out of the lectures at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, and flourished for four years before the colonial government took over technical education.

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Educational institution

Technical Education and New South Wales University of Technology Act 1949

Act establishing a Technical Education Advisory Council to advise the Minister for Education.

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Legislation

Technical Education Branch

State government agency of the Department of Public Instruction which administered technical education for six decades.

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State or colonial government

Technical gazette of New South Wales

The official journal of the Technical Education Branch of the Department of New South Wales between 1911 and 1941.

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Newspaper

Technological Museum building Ultimo

Ornate symmetrical three storey building which, as the Technological Museum and later the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, exhibited examples of the skills and industry of the colony. Though the collection rapidly outgrew the building it was not relocated until the Powerhouse Museum was constructed in the 1980s. The building was then converted for educational purposes for the Sydney Institute of TAFE.

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Educational facility

Ted Noffs

Tugboat equipped for emergency response on Sydney waterways.

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Ship

Ted Noffs Foundation

Founded by the Reverend Ted Noffs in 1970 the foundation provides essential services for young people and their families who are experiencing drug and alcohol problems and related trauma.

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Philanthropic organisation

Tedbury

Aboriginal warrior who, like his father, led a campaign of resistance against European settlers.

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Teen Ranch

Christian camping organisation for young people founded in 1961.

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Nonprofit or charity

Tegel, Valma

Swimmer who died after being attacked by a shark at Oatley Bay in 1946.

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Teka, Tui

Member of the Māori showband Māori Troubadours.

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Telegraph

Trading vessel.

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Telephone

Paddle steamer on the Georges River

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Television Counter Measures

Internal report by Macquarie Radio Network in 1956 on the threats to radio posed by television broadcasting, and recommending promoting radio's role in entertainment so as to safeguard advertising revenue.

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Document

Tell Morning This

Novel set in Sydney's slums that describes life among the unemployed during the Great Depression.

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Book

Tellicherry

Convict ship which brought 166 Irish convicts from Cork including the 5 rebels who had been convicted after the rebellion of 1798. It was to be wrecked in the Phillipines on the return voyage.

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Telopea

North-western residential suburb, named after the botanical name for the NSW waratah. It was developed after the Second World War when the NSW Housing Commission opened up the Dundas Valley.

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Suburb

Tempe

Inner-west suburb on the northern bank of Cooks River which grew from the workers camp established to build the Cooks River dam in 1839. By the 1850s it was also home to limeburners, woodsmen and fishermen.

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Tempe farm

Farm of 100 acres on the southern side of the Cooks River at Tempe previously owned by William Packer. A cottage, garden orchard and vineyard was established in 1828 before the grand home was constructed.

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Farm

Tempe House

Home built on the bank of Cooks River by Alexander Spark which became a social mecca for Sydney's merchants and bankers. It is a rare remaining example of Neo-Classical Georgian architecture in Sydney.

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House

Temple, William

President of the English WEA (Workers' Educational Association) who visited Australia in 1910 and discussed founding a branch of the organisation with director of the New South Wales Department of Public Instruction, Peter Board. He later became the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Templeton, Janet

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Pioneering pastoralist who emigrated as a widow with nine children to establish the wool industry near Goulburn. A major landowner in Victoria, the Riverina and Sydney she retired to Melbourne where she died.

Ten on the Town

Television program on Channel 10 in the 1960s.

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Television program

Ten, George Soo Hoo

Tea merchant who became an Anglican missionary to the Chinese, beginning his work amongst the market gardeners of Botany and Waterloo.

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Tenana, Mat

Member of the showband Māori Troubadours.

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Tench, Watkin

Marine officer and writer whose accounts of the early colony were among the first published.

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Tenison-Woods, Mary Cecil

Lawyer whose personal experience and interests shaped her dedication to child welfare reform and improving the status of women.

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Tennant, Kylie

Writer whose work was based on strenuous research among working people and the unemployed, and often set in Sydney.

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Tennyson

North-western semi-rural suburb, north of Hawkesbury River and Richmond.

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Tennyson Point

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Small suburb of 10 streets on a promontory on the Parramatta River between Putney and Gladesville, where ex-convict brewer James Squire was an early landholder. It was subdivided in 1887 and named after Britain's Poet Laureate.

Tennyson Swimming Club

Swimming club which operated the swimming baths at Tennyson Point between 1918 and 1922.

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Sporting club or association

Tennyson Textiles Mills Pty Ltd

Textile mill established at Ryde in the 1940s. It merged with STP Holdings Limited to form Universal Textiles Australia Limited in 1967.

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Commercial organisation

Tennyson, Hallam

Son of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who hesitated to become governor of South Australia but was governor general for one year in 1903.

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Tent Hospital

Two thatched sheds hastily erected to to cope with the high rate of illness of convicts who worked and lived in harsh conditions.

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Hospital

Tenzin Gyatso

The 14th Dalai Lama, head of Tibetan Buddhism since 1940.

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Ternan, William

Early landowner in Denistone area.

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Terramerragal Reserve

Park in North Turramurra.

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Reserve

Terrence, Joseph

Sailor who survived the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in 1834.

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Terrey Hills

Northern bushland suburb, named after early landholders Obadiah Terrey and Samuel Hills. It borders on Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.

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Terry, Edward

Prominent Eastwood landowner who became a local and state politician for the Ryde area. He was also a hunting and racing enthusiast and built a racecourse at Eastwood.

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Terry, Eleanor

Member of the interlocking Rouse and Terry families.

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Terry, Florence (Bobby)

Pioneer aviator, and one of the first women to own and pilot her own plane. One of the first female commercial pilots in Australia and the first to hold a license for seaplanes, she began flying in 1928. She was one of the six women pilots, with Phyllis Arnott, Margaret Skelton, Evelyn Follett and Alice Upfold and Freda Deaton, to fly in formation and escort Amy Johnson into Sydney in June 1930, and with Nancy Bird she was one of the few Australian members of The 99. She was one of the founding members of the Australian Women Pilots Association in 1950. Born in Queensland in 1890, she married grazier JE Terry in Sydney in 1920. After his death in 1934 she married 'the flying solicitor' Monte Fowler in 1938.

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Terry, George

Landowner at Box Hill.

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Terry, Gerald

Son of Nina Rouse, owner of Rouse Hill Estate, and joint owner with his brother Roderick following her death in 1968.

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Terry, John

Member of the Terry family of Box Hill.

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Terry, Richard Rouse

A wealthy landowner in the Ryde district, Terry was the grandson of convict Samuel Terry and the brother of Ryde's first mayor, Edward Terry.

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Terry, Roderick

Son of Nina Rouse, owner of Rouse Hill Estate, and joint owner with his brother Gerald following her death in 1968.

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