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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.

Ship's surgeon who came to Sydney with the First Fleet on the Lady Penrhyn. His journal of the voyage is an important source about shipboard conditions. He was also an ornithologist who recorded several now extinct species.

Danish-born merchant and landowner who formed a partnership with Philip William Flower and established Flower, Salting and Company, one of the countries leading wool merchant firms. He founded the Salting Exhibition for boys educated at Sydney Grammar School.

Mutiny of soldiers stationed at Casula military camp who travelled from Liverpool to riot in the streets of Sydney on !4 February 1916. Their drunken behaviour was to influence the referendum on early closing later in the year.

Proposed in 1868 after the assassination attempt on Prince Alfred, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital was opened in 1882 and grew steadily. Closely linked with Sydney University, the hospital trained many doctors and nurses.

Ian Hoskins is a Sydney-based historian. His book Sydney Harbour: A History won the Queensland Premier's Literary Prize for History in 2010. Coast: A History of the New South Wales Edge was published in 2013 by New South Books

John Arthur Guy was a house painter and photographer. He emigrated to Sydney from England around 1856 and opened a photographic studio at 290 George Street with his brother, artist and scene painter, James Waln Guy in 1858.

Whilst the Garden Palace was a brief and fiery addition to the Sydney landscape, the decision to hold an International Exhibition in 1879 was to place the city on the world stage.

Suburb on Sydney's south-western fringes which grew from a township founded in 1820 by Governor Macquarie that commemorates his wife Elizabeth's maiden name. Rural in nature until the 1960s, the suburb has since grown into a major population centre.

Small, densely populated inner-eastern suburb, joined to Garden Island in 1942. It contains significant nineteenth-century buildings as well as some of Sydney's earliest apartment buildings in the Art Deco style. It includes the locality of Kings Cross.

Also known as Laughtondale Cemetery, the burial ground includes the grave of Peter Hibbs, a First Fleeter, his wife Mary who came to Sydney in the Second Fleet, as well as some of the area's other pioneering families.

Large Italianate house built for cement pioneer and grazier George Raffan. It has extensive gardens with Norfolk pines, bamboo and Port Jackson fig trees and was used as a boarding school by Sydney Grammar for over 50 years.

Cinema at 318 Sydney Road, Balgowlah that was originally built as a meeting hall built for the Balgowlah Progress Association in 1922 and converted to a cinema in 1927. The cinema closed in 1985 and the building was demolished.

Hall at 3 Queen Street, Chippendale which was built in 1886 to support the work of the Sydney City Mission amongst the poor in Chippendale. This was the first of several buildings built by the Mission in Chippendale.

Performing arts centre on the corner of City Road and Cleveland Street. It was erected using a bequest from businessman and philanthropist Everest Reginald York Seymour. The Centre is operated under the auspices of the University of Sydney.

From transported convicts to pearl fishermen and food hawkers, Malaysians have long had ties with Sydney. Today they form a prominent part of the daily fabric in the cultural and business life of the city.

Ross Thorne is an architect who has conducted his own private practice while lecturing and researching the social and architectural history of Australian theatre and cinema buildings at the University of Sydney since 1961. He was appointed associate professor in 1973. His…

Gothic Revival style brick school building designed by George Allen Mansfield built in 1878. In use as part of the Darlington Public School until 1975 when the land was transferred to University of Sydney. Surrounding buildings, including the Town Hall, were demolished. The…

Suspension bridge built to encourage residential development at Northbridge and Cammeray. Built between 1889 and 1892, it was designed by Professor William H Warren of the University of Sydney and JEF Coyle, consulting engineer, and was considered one of the engineering…

French mariner who was part of the Baudin expedition that arrived in Sydney in April 1802. Lieutenant and second in command on board the Naturaliste, he was promoted to the rank of commander at Timor on 20 October 1801. The expedition arrived in Port Jackson in April 1802 but…