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Trustee

Occupation - Trustee
Notting, William Albert
Windeyer, William Charles
Position - Trustee of Art Gallery of New South Wales
Mullins, John Lane
1916 - 1939
Position - Trustee of Australian Museum
Hill, Edward Smith
Hunt, Robert Fellowes
Mitchell, James
1853 - 1869
Scott, Alexander Walker
1867 - 1879
Sinclair, Eric
Position - Trustee of Australian Subscription Library
Windeyer, William Charles
1888 - 1897
Position - Trustee of Great Synagogue
de Lissa, Alfred
Position - Trustee of Queen Victoria Homes for Consumptives
Dixson, William
1922 - 1938
Position - Trustee of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Manning, Frederic Norton
1873
Position - Trustee of Savings Bank of New South Wales
Barney, George
1841
Holden, George Kenyon
Position - Trustee of South Head General Cemetery Trust
Sautelle, Edwin Stanhope
Position - Trustee of St Jude's Anglican church Randwick
Pearce, Simeon Henry
Position - Trustee of St Peter's Anglican church St Peters
Lord, John
Position - Trustee of State Library of New South Wales
Boote, Henry Ernest
1926 - 1942
Position - Trustee of Sydney Free Public Grammar School
Reibey, Mary
Position - Trustee of Sydney Grammar School
Holroyd, Arthur Todd
Pell, Morris Birkbeck
Stephen, Matthew Henry
Windeyer, William Charles
Position - Trustee of Sydney Living Museums
Cottier, Keith

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Trustee

Notting, William Albert

Accountant and estate agent who was a keen sailor and the Commodore of the Sydney Sailing Club. He recognised the importance of keeping access to Sydney Harbour in public hands and as founder and secretary of the Harbour Foreshore Vigilance Committee in the early 1900s lobbied the state government to resume lands and create public reserves.

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Windeyer, William Charles

Barrister, judge, politician and social reformer who encouraged education for girls and was founding chairman of Women's College, within the University of Sydney.

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Art Gallery of New South Wales

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Sydney's public art gallery and collection which includes European, Asian and Australian art including a specific gallery, Yiribana, for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection.

Mullins, John Lane

Lawyer, whose inherited income enabled him to become a prominent art patron and Catholic lay leader. When he entered first local and then state politics he was an important link between artists and Sydney's political and business elite.

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Australian Museum

Australia's oldest natural history museum, founded in 1827.

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Hill, Edward Smith

Wine and spirit merchant who was also a naturalist and a Trustee at the Australian Museum. He was a supporter of Aboriginal people, learning the Sydney language and gave lectures on culture. Aboriginal vistors to Sydney would camp at his house in Woollahra.

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Hunt, Robert Fellowes

Chemist who was appointed at the newly established Sydney branch of the Royal Mint in 1854 to direct melting and refining operations.

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Mitchell, James

Physician and industrialist who combined a busy city practice with business interests in banking, mining and railways with varying degrees of success.

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Scott, Alexander Walker

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Entomologist and entrepreneur who began many innovative projects in the Hunter Valley and Newcastle leading to a role in state government but who became increasingly devoted to the study of insects in the colony.

Sinclair, Eric

Psychiatrist who campaigned to establish the treatment of mental illness on a scientific footing and to have psychiatry recognized as a legitimate medical science.

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Australian Subscription Library

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Sydney's first major public library. The organisation formed in 1826 and the Library opened in rented rooms in Pitt Street, 1 December 1827, with 1,000 volumes. In 1845 the Library moved into a purpose built building on the corner of Bent and Macquarie Streets. The organisation was renamed the Australian Library and Literary Institution in 1853. After financial difficulties, in 1869 the collection and building was bought by the colonial government and became the first Free Public Library of Sydney and has since evolved into the State Library of New South Wales.

Great Synagogue

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Synagogue in Elizabeth Street designed by architect Thomas Rowe and consecrated in 1878. Combining elements of Byzantine and Gothic style, it is designed to accommodate up to 1,000 worshippers.

de Lissa, Alfred

Solicitor who specialised in company law and published several pamphlets on finance, labour, and income distribution.

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Queen Victoria Homes for Consumptives

A free private hospital established for the care of patients suffering from tuberculosis. Patients were initially housed in a hotel in Picton before a purpose-built facility was opened in Thirlmere in 1886 and another in Wentworth Falls in 1903.

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Dixson, William

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Businessman, collector and benefactor who bequeathed his collection of over 20,000 items of Australiana to the State Library of New South Wales, forming the Dixson Library.

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

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Major Sydney hospital in Camperdown that has trained doctors and nurses and treated Sydneysiders since it opened in 1882.

Manning, Frederic Norton

Doctor who radically changed the treatment of the mentally ill by breaking down indifference and deep-rooted prejudices and overseeing the construction of purpose built humane facilities.

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Savings Bank of New South Wales

Bank established to administer convict monies and take deposits from the emerging working classes, providing security and interest on deposits.

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Barney, George

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Soldier and engineer who became Colonial Engineer under Governor Bourke.

Holden, George Kenyon

A lawyer and politician who became the first Examiner of Titles in New South Wales, George Kenyon Holden oversaw the implementation of the Torrens Title system of land registration, which became a secure basis for Sydney land transactions from 1863.

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South Head General Cemetery Trust

Private trust that managed South Head General Cemetery from until 1939. After a number of irregularities were uncovered and the Secretary, ES Sautelle, was found guilty of falsifying pay sheets and stealing funds from the Trust in 1938, the Trustees were asked to resign and the Trust was dissolved by the state government in 1939. The management of the cemetery passed to Waverley Council in 1941.

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Sautelle, Edwin Stanhope

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A civil engineer who, as the Vaucluse Council Town Clerk, designed the Parsley Bay suspension bridge. He later became an alderman on Vaucluse Council, serving twice as mayor. in 1895 he had been appointed Secretary of the South Head General Cemetery Trust, but in 1938 was charged  with forgery and larceny after misappropriating cemetery funds and sentenced to three years in gaol.

St Jude's Anglican church Randwick

Victorian Gothic church built in 1865 on land donated by Simeon Pearce. Some of its interior fittings were designed by Edmund Blacket and the church contains the only ringable steel eight bells in the world, which were originally cast in 1864 at Vickers, England. The Tower was heightened in 1877 to accommodate the clock and the transepts added in 1889.
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Pearce, Simeon Henry

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Early settler at Randwick who promoted its development tirelessly for almost 40 years.

St Peter's Anglican church St Peters

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Church designed by Thomas Bird. Its foundation stone was laid 13 July 1839 and the church was completed in November 1839.

Lord, John

Sydney businessman and importer who arrived in Sydney in 1827 and occupied Bello Retiro at Newtown before moving to Hobart. He owned the Marquis of Lansdowne and used it to trade with India and elsewhere. In 1838 he was involved in the campaign to import Indian labourers to replace English convicts. He was declared bankrupt in 1842 and died in 1863.

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State Library of New South Wales

The State Library of NSW is the oldest library in Australia. In 1869 the NSW Government purchased the Australian Subscription Library, which had been established in 1826, to form the Sydney Free Public Library, the first truly public library for the people of NSW. The Mitchell Library, the first library in the country to concentrate entirely on Australian content, opened in 1910.

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Boote, Henry Ernest

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Labor propagandist and journalist who strongly opposed conscription and the senseless horror of war, resulting in his appearance in the Central Police Court for not submitting articles to the censor.

Sydney Free Public Grammar School

Early Sydney school which was incorporated into the independent boys' school Sydney Grammar.

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Reibey, Mary

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Convict who became a wealthy businesswoman.

Sydney Grammar School

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Independent boys' school in College Street.

Holroyd, Arthur Todd

African explorer, physician and barrister who held several turbulent positions in the judiciary and parliament.

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Pell, Morris Birkbeck

Professor of mathematics who was chosen from 26 candidates as first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the University of Sydney, with a salary of £825.

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Stephen, Matthew Henry

Lawyer and judge, usually known as Henry Stephen, who was active in social and philanthropic circles. He was the son of Alfred Stephen.

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Sydney Living Museums

Statutory authority established in 1980 to manage, maintain and interpret a number of historic houses and museums for the New South Wales state government as the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Known as Sydney Living Museums since 2013, the organisation manages 14 properties and sites across the state, including the Museum of Sydney, as well as research collections like the Caroline Simpson Library.

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Cottier, Keith

Award winning architect whose contribution has been particularly significant in the field of residential architecture.

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