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Trickett, Edward (Ned)
Trickett, William
Triguboff, Harry
Trim Animal
Trinder, Tommy
Trinity Grammar School Educational institution
Trinity Hall, Argyle Place Hall
Trocadero Hall
Trocadero Dance Educational institution
Trocadero Newtown Entertainment venue
Trollope, Anthony
Trood, Abel Salter
Tropfest Cultural
Tropicana Caffe Commercial organisation
Trott, David (Jock)
Truman, Edwin Philip
Truman, Ernest
Trumper, Victor
Trust Players Performing group
Truth Magazine or periodical
Try, Jane
Tsang, Henry
Tschaikov, Anton
Tsering, Namgyel
Tsoukalas, Ezekiel
TSS Belbowrie Ship
Tuai
Tucker and Co Commercial organisation
Tucker, Charles Churchill
Tucker, Estelle
Tucker, James
Tucker, John George
Tucker, Margaret Elizabeth (Lilardia)
Tucker, William
Tuckers House House
Tuckson, Tony
Tudor, Carrie
Tuffy, James
Tuki Tahua
Tulkiyan House
Tulloch, William
Tulloona House
Tumbalong Park Park or open space
Tung Wah Times Newspaper
Tunk, Margaret
Tunks, William
Turnbull, Rebecca
Turner Hall Hall
Turner, Bunty
Turner, Elizabeth

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Trickett, Edward (Ned)

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Sculler who won the world championship in 1876 and later became a publican and public servant.

Trickett, William

Solicitor who served as Mayor of Woollahra 1879-81 and 1886-88, and as Member of the NSW Parliament from 1880.

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Triguboff, Harry

Businessman, born in China to White Russian parents, who was educated in Sydney and worked in textiles in South Africa and Israel, before establishing a property development company in 1963.

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Trim

Matthew Flinders' cat, who accompanied the navigator on his voyages to Australia and Mauritius. During the circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-03, Flinders' noted his feline companion formed a bond with fellow shipmate and Garigal man, Bungaree. After departing for England aboard HMS Porpoise, the ship wrecked off the Wreck Reefs and the crew survived aboard a cutter and sailed back to Sydney. On his way back to England again, Flinders was arrested and imprisoned by French authorities in Mauritius. During his imprisonment a French woman offered to care for Trim. Within two weeks, a public gazette declared Trim had been lost. Flinders' tribute described him as 'the best and most illustrious of his Race, the most affectionate of friends, faithful of servants, and best of creatures.'

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Animal

Trinder, Tommy

English comedian who starred in variety shows and film.

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Trinity Grammar School

Independent Anglican day and boarding school for boys. Founded in 1913 at Dulwich Hill the main campus is now at Summer Hill.

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Educational institution

Trinity Hall, Argyle Place

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Former school building now used as a parish hall on the northern side of the Holy Trinity Anglican Church at Millers Point. It was built between 1846 and 1860 to house the school the church had established in 1844 in nearby rented premises. In the 1940s and 1950s the hall was also used as a Church of England National Emergency Fund hostel for servicemen.

Hall

Trocadero

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George Street's most opulent dance hall.

Trocadero Dance

Dance studio in Concord, in Sydney's inner-west.

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Trocadero Newtown

Ornate roller skating rink complete with hair salons for men and women, a cafe and oyster saloons. With a roof that opened and fountain centrepiece it proved a popular entertainment venue in the late nineteenth century.

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Entertainment venue

Trollope, Anthony

English civil servant and writer who visited Australia, and Sydney, twice during the 1870s and used his experiences in a number of his books.

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Trood, Abel Salter

English migrant who, with his wife, opened day and boarding schools in Sydney for boys and for girls. The first school was in Pitt Street, the second, Bellevue Hall School, was on Kent Street from 1834 until July 1838.

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Tropfest

Annual short film festival.

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Cultural

Tropicana Caffe

Cafe in Darlinghurst which hosted the first Tropfest short film festival in 1993.

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Commercial organisation

Trott, David (Jock)

Cook who enlisted in the B Company, 3rd Battalion and took part in the landings at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. He was injured in July and after rejoining his unit they took part in the attack at Lone Pine. He and his battalion participated in the Battle of Pozieres in July 1916. In February 1917, he was placed under arrest having shot away fingers on both of his hands. In March 1917 he was found guilty and sentenced to 30 days heavy labouring duties for self-inflicted wounds.

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Truman, Edwin Philip

Financier and amateur musician.

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Truman, Ernest

Musician who gave over 3,000 recitals as Sydney City Organist.

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Trumper, Victor

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Cricketer and businessman who was hailed as the best batsman in the world in 1902.

Trust Players

Drama company established by the Elizabethan Trust Opera Company in 1957.

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Performing group

Truth

Newspaper founded in August 1890 by William Nicholas Willis.

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Magazine or periodical

Try, Jane

Wife of George Augustus Try, owner of Brookvale House

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Tsang, Henry

Architect and Deputy Mayor of Sydney who designed the Chinese Garden of Friendship at Darling Harbour and contributed to the redesign of Dixon Street as a pedestrian area.

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Tschaikov, Anton

Violinist.

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Tsering, Namgyel

Believed to be the first Tibetan to migrate to Australia (1973).

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Tsoukalas, Ezekiel

Fourth Bishop and first Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox congregation.

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TSS Belbowrie

Cargo ship 37 metres long which struck rocks at the southern end of Maroubra beach and broke up shortly afterwards.

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Ship

Tuai

 

Māori chief of the Te Hikutu clan, who visited Sydney in 1814 and London in 1818, to establish trade contracts.

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Tucker and Co

Importing and customs agency.

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Tucker, Charles Churchill

Councillor on Hornsby Shire Council.

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Tucker, Estelle

Local resident of Kogarah who suggested the name Beverley Park in a naming competition run by council.

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Tucker, James

Controversial writer who may have been the author of Ralph Rashleigh, not published until 40 years after his death.

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Tucker, John George

Publican and butcher who lived in Forest Lodge in the 1860s.

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Tucker, Margaret Elizabeth (Lilardia)

One of the earliest female Aboriginal activists. She was taken from her family at Wangaseda in New South Wales in 1917 at the age of 12 and trained as a domestic servant at the Cootamundra Girls Home. She was sent at 16 to a wealthy grazier's family in Neutral Bay as a domestic servant, but was abused in her first placement and sent to another family. She ran away but was caught and sent into service again in Walgett. She stayed in service until 1925 and spent her adult life campaigning for Aboriginal rights and welfare. Tucker, also known as Aunty Marge and Princess Lilardia, was one of the founding members of the Australian Aborigines League in Victoria in 1932 and one of the organisers of the National Day of Mourning in Sydney in 1938. In 1968 she became the first Aboriginal woman to join the Commonwealth’s Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs. She was awarded an MBE in 1968.

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Tucker, William

William Tucker, or Tuckett, was the common hangman in New South Wales in the 1870s until about 1876. In Gundagai, on 20 July 1876, he declared to the Police Magistrate's Court that 'his profession would drive him mad, as it takes a man with very strong nerves to execute a man, and he felt that he was not equal to it, and he intended to give it up'.

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Tuckers House

House at Medlow Bath which existed before the development of the Hydro Majestic Hotel. It had been owned by Alfred Tucker, whose widow later ran the Wonderland Park guesthouse to the north of the gatekeeper's cottage.

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House

Tuckson, Tony

Initially a painter of still life and figures he is most famous for his later abstract expressionist works.

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Tudor, Carrie

First wife of Harry Rickards, whom he married at Bromley, England on 10 March 1862.

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Tuffy, James

Owner of cow yards in Darlinghurst in the 1870s.

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Tuki Tahua

Māori chief who was kidnapped from the Cavalli Islands to Norfolk Island to teach flax processing.

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Tulkiyan

Arts and Crafts style suburban villa which reflects the taste and lifestyle of the upper middle class in Sydney prior to World War I.

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Tulloch, William

Wine and spirit merchant.

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Tulloona

Grand mansion built in Burwood in 1875 for iron founder John Robert Bubb. It was remodelled by Alban Joseph Riley for his large family in the 1880s. The house in Park Road, was saved from demolition in the 1980s and restored.

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Tumbalong Park

Five hectares of open space within the Darling Harbour redevelopment often filled with entertainers not far from the Ultimo paddocks where jugglers and strongmen performed in the 19th century.

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Park or open space

Tung Wah Times

Chinese newspaper published 1902-1936.

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Newspaper

Tunk, Margaret

Laundress.

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Tunks, William

Businessman and local and state politician who was important in the development of local government in North Sydney.

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Turnbull, Rebecca

Museum curator

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Turner Hall

Highly decorative two storey heritage building with Australian fauna and flora decoration, pressed metal ceilings and marble wall panels located on Mary Ann Street within the historic precinct of Ultimo College. The building, erected in 1892, was used for various purposes during the twentieth century including an auditorium with a seating capacity of about 1,000. Following renovations in 1990 it now has a seating capacity of 450. It is named for J W Turner the Superintendent of Technical Education 1906-13.

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Turner, Bunty

English actress.

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Turner, Elizabeth

Resident of Pitt Street in the 1850s who later moved to Woolloomooloo.

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