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Thomas Elder BARR SMITH
Born (1863-12-08 ) 8 December 1863Died 26 November 1941(1941-11-26) (aged 77) Spouse Mary Isabel Mitchell Parent(s)
Robert Barr Smith and Joanna Lang Barr Smith, (née Elder) Relatives
Mary Downer nee Gosse (granddaughter)
Thomas Elder Barr Smith (8 December 1863 – 26 November 1941)
[1] was a
South Australian pastoralist and philanthropist.
Tom Barr Smith was born in
Woodville, South Australia , the son of
Robert Barr Smith ,
[2]
and his wife Joanna Lang, née Elder.
[1]
On 5 May 1886 he married Mary Isabel Mitchell, at St Andrew's Church,
Walkerville .
In 1917, Barr Smith subdivided his estate, which became the
Adelaide suburb of
Torrens Park .
In 1928 he gave £30,000 to the
University of Adelaide to enable the building of the
Barr Smith Library .
[3]
His interests included competing in
car rallies . A
steam locomotive , now preserved in the
National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide , was named after him in 1926.
[4]
There is a plaque in his honour on the
Jubilee 150 Walkway .
Family
Father:
Robert Barr Smith (1824–1915)
[5]
Mother: Joanna Elder - sister of Sir Thomas Elder
Uncles: Sir
Thomas Elder (1818–1897),
[6] William Elder (1813–1882),
Alexander Lang Elder (1815–1885) and George Elder (1816–1897)
Daughter: Joanna Lang Barr Smith, Lady Gosse (1886–1965) married Sir
James Hay Gosse (1876–1952)
[7] on 29 April 1908, at St. Andrew's, Walkerville, South Australia.
Son: Sir Tom Elder Barr Smith (1904–1968)
[8]
References
^
a
b
Linn, R. W.
"Smith, Tom Elder Barr (1863–1941)" .
Australian Dictionary of Biography . National Centre of Biography,
Australian National University .
ISSN
1833-7538 . Retrieved 15 December 2013 .
^
Serle, Percival (1949).
"Barr Smith, Robert" .
Dictionary of Australian Biography . Sydney:
Angus & Robertson .
^ Burn, Margy (1982), The Barr Smith Library: its early days , University of Adelaide Library,
hdl :
2440/15901 .
^
No.504 "Tom Barr-Smith"
Archived 19 August 2006 at the
Wayback Machine , National Railway Museum - 500B-class 4-8-4 steam locomotive - retrieved 1 February 2009.
^ van Dissel, Dirk (1976).
'Smith, Robert Barr (1824-1915)' .
Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 6, Melbourne University Press, pp 153-154. Retrieved on 9 July 2009.
^ Gosse, Fayette (1972)
'Elder, Sir Thomas (1818-1897)' ,
Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, pp 133-134. Retrieved on 9 July 2009.
^ Gosse, Fayette (1996)
'Gosse, Sir James Hay (1876–1952)' , Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, (MUP). Retrieved on 4 September 2011.
^ Shanahan, Martin. (2002).
'Smith, Sir Tom Elder Barr (1904-1968)' ,
Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 16, Melbourne University Press, pp 274-275. Retrieved on 11 July 2009.