Montage Of Portraits Of Western Australian Men Of Mark.

Summary

Published caption: (1) The Rev. J. B. Wittenoom, first Colonial Chaplain. (2) Mr. George Fletcher Moore, first Advocate-General. (3) Sir Richard Spencer, first Government Resident at Albany (4) Colonel John Molloy, Resident Magistrate of Augusta, 1830. (5) Captain J S. Roe, first Surveyor-General. (6) Mr. John Garrett Bussell, founder of Busselton. (7) Mr. James Drummond, first Government Agriculturist, Botanist and Naturalist. (8) Mr. Alfred Stone, first Clerk of Peace. (9) Major Edmund Lockyer, founder of Albany. (10) Mr. P. Broun (or Brown), first Colonial Secretary, (11) Mr. John Bateman, first postmaster at Fremantle. (12) Mr. Marshall Waller Clifton, founder in 1841 of the ill-fated Australind settlement. (13) Mr. F. T. Gregory, whose North-west explorations between 1846 and 1861 opened up large tracts of country. (14) Sir George Grey, who, as Captain Grey, made extensive explorations in 1837 and 1839. (15) Mr. Alexander Forrest, who joined his brother John, afterwards Lord Forrest, in explorations of the interior, and who in 1870 accompanied his brother from Perth to Adelaide via Eucla. (16) Mr. Ernest Giles, who explored Central Australia, and in 1875 crossed from Adelaide to Perth and back again. (17) Mr. Edward J. Eyre, who made the first successful attempt to cross from South Australia to Western Australia in 1841. (18) Mr. Joseph Hardey, who conducted the first Methodist service in Perth under a jarrah tree. He was a pioneer agriculturist at the Peninsula, Maylands. (19) Bishop Hale, the first Anglican Bishop of Perth. (20) Bishop Salvado, who founded the Benedictine Mission to the Aborigines at New Norcia in 1846. (21) Archbishop Riley, first Anglican Archbishop of Perth. (22) Mr. Walter Padbury, who pioneered North-west pastoral development. (23) Mr. S. P. Phillips, who led the development of the Toodyay district. (24) Sir James Lee Steere, Speaker of the Legislative Council at the inauguration of Responsible Government in 1890. (25) Mr. William Locke Brockman, of Herne Hill, Middle Swan and Cheriton, Gingin: a pioneer agriculturalist. (26) Mr. William Ford, who, with Mr. Arthur Bayley, found gold at Coolgardie in 1892. (27) Mr. George Walpole Leake, Q.C., Police Magistrate at Perth, and at one time Acting Judge, who died in 1895. (28) Sir Malcolm Fraser, Registrar-General in 1891, and founder of King's Park, Perth. (29) Mr. John Henry Monger, after whom Monger's Lake was named. He was a pioneer merchant of York. (30) Mr. C. Y. O'Connor, engineer for the Goldfields Water Scheme. (31) Mr. W. S. Pearse, chairman of the first Fremantle Municipal Council in 1871. (32) Sir Henry Parker, leader of the campaign for Responsible Government in Western Australia. (33) Sir George Shenton, President of the Legislative Council, 1892-1906. (34) Mr. Septimus Burt, K.C., Attorney-General in the Forrest Ministry from 1890 to 1897. (35) Mr. W. D. Moore, first president of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce. (36) Mr. Lionel Samson, who founded at Fremantle in 1829 the oldest commercial house in the state.