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ОглавлениеCast of Characters
Captain Collet Barker: Military Officer and explorer charged with finding the mouth of the River Murray as a possible harbour for the potential colony of Adelaide.
Captain Walter Bromley: First Protector of Aborigines in Adelaide.
John Brown: Emigration agent for South Australian Colonisation Commission.
James Cronk: Labourer from Tottenham who befriended Adelaide Aborigines.
Robert Cock: A Scotsman, early settler and explorer who was the only South Australian to offer the Aborigines recompense for loss of their way of life.
James Hurtle Fisher: Resident Commissioner.
Governor George Gawler: Second Governor of South Australia following John Hindmarsh, 1838.
Osmond Gilles: First colonial treasurer.
Robert Gouger.: Edward Wakefied’s secretary.
Governor George Grey: Third Governor of South Australia following George Gawler.
John Barton Hack: A wealthy Quaker who kept an eye on the welfare of the Adelaide Aborigines.
Captain John Hindmarsh. The first Governor of South Australia.
Sir John Jeffcott: The first Judge of the Adelaide colony.
Judge Henry Jickling: The second judge of the Adelaide colony following Sir John Jeffcott.
Colonel William Light: Surveyor General of the City of Adelaide.
John McLaren: Manager of the South Australian Company.
George Milner Stephen: Acting governor when George Gawler was called away.
Charles Moon: A sailor from the Buffalo.
George Stevenson: Private secretary to Governor John Hindmarsh and editor of the SA Register.
Robert Thomas: First Government printer.
Edward Gibbon Wakefield: Advocate of Systematic Colonisation.
Edward Wright MD: One of first doctors in the new colony.
Other Characters in the 20th Century Adelaide Story
Dr Hugh Birch: Medical superintendent at Parkside Mental Hospital 1954-1961.
Dr Bill Cramond: Medical superintendent at Parkside Mental Hospital following Dr Hugh Birch, 1961.
Charles Duguid: Started the South Australian Aborigines Advancement League in the 1930s and was a leading light well into the 1980s.
Sir Robert Menzies: Prime Minister of Australia from 1949 -1966.
Sir Thomas Playford: Premier of South Australia from 1938 -1965 and founder of the City of Elizabeth.
Other Characters in the Kaurna Story
William Cawthorne: Teacher and artist who sketched the scene in 1844 capturing this defining moment in Kaurna history, Murlawirrapurka’s last stand. Shields & spears of the natives on the battlefield is hanging in the Lounge Gallery of the Kaurna Building in the University of South Australia
Lillian Holt: Head of Taoundi College in Port Adelaide in the 1990s.
Samuel Klose: Lutheran missionary from Dresden who took over from Teichelmann and Schurmann.
Vincent Lingiari: A Gurindji from the Northern Territory who stood up to the Vestey brothers in Northern territory in the late 60s.
Uncle Lewis Yerlopurka O’Brien: Chief elder of the Kaurna people and direct descendant of Kudnarto. He wrote And the Clock Struck Thirteen, Wakefield Press, 2007.
Lowitja O’Donohue: He fought to become a nurse in the hallowed white halls of the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Charlie Kumantjayi Perkins: An Arrente man from near Alice Springs and a trailblazer for Aboriginal rights.
Mongarawata: A Milmenrura man who was hung for the massacre of the survivors of the shipwreck in the Coorong, South Australia, in 1842.
Christian Teichelmann and Clamour Schurmann: the Lutheran missionaries who came to Adelaide in 1838 to teach the Aboriginal children at Piltawardli. Teichelmann was dubbed Kertamerru, like Kertamerru, Murlawirrapurka, first born son.
Yerricha and Wang Nucha: Yerricha should have been more correctly written as Yerraitya, which meant second born, and Wang Nucha as Wangutya, the seventh born male.
