1.
MILITARY FORCES OF NEW SOUTH WALES MEMORIAL Buried here are Lieut.
T. Hammond, Lieut. R. Bedford, Corpl. J. McKee and Bugler C.
Bennett, killed in April 1891 by the premature explosion of a
submarine mine during the Middle Head Easter encampment.
2.
ROBERT COOPER WALKER ( 1833-1897) Principal librarian of Sydney's
Free Public Library, he pioneered systematic organisation,
cataloguing and classifying. In 1877 he became principal librarian
of the Sydney Municipal Library. In 24 years he built the collection
to its first 100,000 volumes, attracting 200,000 visitors a year.
3.
ROBERT HOWARD the NSW. State hangman c.1875-1904, nicknamed
"Nosy Bob" and "the Gentleman Hangman". Lived at
Bondi Beach and died in 1906.
4.
SIR ROBERT WISDOM ( 1830-1888) barrister and politician. While
Attorney General in 1879 he prosecuted Andrew George Scott, the bush
ranger known as "Captain Moonlite", who was found guilty
of murder and hanged in 1880.
5a.
EBENEZER VICKERY (1827-1906) merchant, manufacturer, philanthropist,
politician. He gave the Lyceum Theatre, Sydney, to the Methodist
Church, and his residence "Edina" is now the main building
of the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley.
5b.
GUSTAVIUS WATERHOUSE, in the same family grave. Vickery's
son-in-law. Was Mayor of Waverley 1897-1898.
6.
ELIZA O'FLAHERTY (nee Winstanley) actress and authoress, 1818-1882.
Was the idol of Australian theatre audiences in the 1830's 1840's,
and enjoyed considerable success in England and America.
7.
WILLIAM JOSEPH TRICKETT (1843-1916) solicitor and politician. His
father supervised construction of the Sydney Mint. Mayor of
Woollahra 1879-81, 1886-88.
8.
THOMAS HENRY KENDALL (1839-1882) "regarded as the finest poet
Australia had produced", a true lover of the Australian bush.
The first to express a distinct appreciation of his native land in
verse.
9.
SIR FRANCIS FORBES (1784-1841) First Chief Justice of New South
Wales, appointed in 1823. He is inseparably connected with the
introduction into N.S.W. of trial by jury, and by 1833 had decided
that all free persons, regardless of their convict past, were
entitled to all privileges of free men.
10.
LT.COL. GEORGE JOHNSTON (1764-1823) arrived with the First Fleet on
the "Lady Penrhyn" and overthrew Governor William Bligh
during the Rum Rebellion.
11.
(JOHN) THOMAS PLAYFAIR (1832-1893) butcher and ships' provedore to
windjammers. Elected to Sydney City Council in 1875, he became Lord
Mayor of Sydney in 1885, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly
in 1889.
12.
MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN SOAME RICHARDSON, C.B. (1836-1896) Commandant of
the NSW. Military Forces 1871-1892. His burial with full military
honours symbolised his great contribution to the founding of the
Australian military tradition.
13.
SIR GEORGE BOWEN SIMPSON (1838-1915) politician and judge. Became a
member of the Legislative Council and Attorney General in 1885, and
in 1894 a judge of the Supreme Court. Knighted in 1909. Twice Acting
Governor. Spoke often on law reform and resisted weakening of trial
by jury.
14.
SIR ALFRED ROBERTS (1823-1898) surgeon, Director of Prince Alfred
Hospital; honorary surgeon to the Clergy Daughters'School (now St.
Catherine's School, Waverley); responsible for the construction of
Prince Henry Hospital.
15.
SIR JAMES MARTIN (1820-1886) He twice became Premier of N.S.W. and
was appointed Chief Justice in 1873. Martin Place, Sydney is named
after him, and Lady Martin's Beach at Point Piper, after his wife.
(William Bede Dalley was his brother-in-law see 28 below)
16a.
DOROTHEA MACKELLAR, O.B.E. (1885-1968) poet and writer. Her most
famous poem "My Country" was written about 1904. She was
described as a "lyrist of colour and light in love with the
Australian landscape".
16b.
SIR CHARLES KINNAIRD MACKELLAR (1844-1926) physician, politician and
businessman. Father of Dorothea.
17.
SIR JAMES DOWLING (1787-1844) Chief Justice of N.S.W. He was
remarkable for his uprightness and impartiality, and for a
painstaking and anxious industry rarely equalled. The Mitchell
Library holds many of his notebooks, reports and official
correspondence, all in his copperplate handwriting.
18.
SIR ADRIAN KNOX (1863-1932) Chief Justice of N.S.W. When young he
attended school at Waverley House. While Chairman of the Australian
Jockey Club in 1906-1919, "had much to do with lifting the tone
of racing in N.S.W". An executive of the Red Cross during World
War I.
19.
WILLIAM GREGORY WALKER (1846-1910) Supreme Court Judge.
20a.
SIR HERBERT MAITLAND (1868-1923) surgeon. First lecturer in clinical
surgery when Sydney Hospital became a clinical school of the
university, in 1909. Knighted in 1915. Surgeon at the 4th Aust.
General Hospital, Randwick during World War I. Director of Sydney
Hospital from 1916.
20b.
SIR FREDERICK FRENCH Commodore of P & O Fleet. Second husband of
Lady Mabel Maitland.
21.
HARRY RICKARDS (1845-1911) actor, comedian, theatrical proprietor.
In 1893 he bought the Garrick Theatre, Sydney. and renamed it the
Tivoli. Known as "Australia's Vaudeville King".
22.
SIR ROBERT WILLIAM DUFF (1835-1895) Governor of N.S.W. 1893-1895.
The first N.S.W. Governor to die in office, he was given an
impressive military funeral. He served in England's parliament with
Robert Lowe of Bronte House fame, became a civil lord of the
admiralty, and a privy councillor in 1892.
23.
SIR WILLIAM JOHN MACLEAY ( 1820-1891) pastoralist, politician and
patron of science. He once beat off an attack by Ben Hall's gang
while travelling to the Murrumbidgee. Lived at Elizabeth Bay House
for almost 30 years; descendant of original owner.
24.
HENRY MARCUS CLARK d.l913. Arrived in Australia from England in
1880. In 1883 he started a small drapery shop which prospered and
became Marcus Clark ~ Co., retail store.
25.
DAVID FLETCHER Irish-born, d. 1890 aged 75. Dentist. The first to
have the title Mayor of Waverley, in 1868.
26.
WALLACE ARTHUR PROUDFOOT Champion surf swimmer, member of the South
Narrabeen Surf Club, he was given the Meritous Award, one of the
highest distinctions conferred by the Surf Life Saving Association.
He was killed in 1934, aged 32, in a motor lorry accident while
returning from a Surf Carnival at Bondi Beach.
27.
WILLIAM HOWE Mayor of Waverley, 1933-34. Died while in office.
28.
WILLIAM BEDE DALLEY (1831-1888) barrister and politician, son of
convict parents. While Acting Premier in 1885 he sent N.S.W. troops
to fight in the Sudan, the first armed force to be dispatched
overseas by a British Colony. In 1886 he was the first Australian to
be appointed to the Privy Council.
29.
DANIEL HENRY DENIEHEY (1822-1865) son of a convict. He was a
pre-eminently gifted personality, orator, lawyer, literary editor,
critic and politician.
30.
JULIAN EDMUND TENISON-WOODS (1832-1889) catholic priest,
educationalist and scientist. Esteemed as a preacher and missionary,
he was a dedicated priest, an outstanding, though stubborn,
religious leader and an advanced educationalist.
31.
U.S. CIVIL WAR VETERANS Phineas S. Thompson (1836-1900) was a
Captain of 178 N.Y. Infantry. John S. Thompson (1843-1890) served in
Company K 10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
32.
IRISH MONUMENT OF 1798 built above the grave of Michael Dwyer,
"the Wicklow Chief" and his wife, Mary, and dedicated to
the "Patriots of 1798" and "Easter Week 1916".
33.
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE (1850-1915) aeronautical pioneer, inventor and
explorer. Invented the box kite and in 1894 lifted himself from
Stanwell Park beach in a four-kite construction. His is the face on
the Australian $20 note.
34.
VICTOR THOMAS TRUMPER (1877-1915) international cricketer the
"incomparable batsman". In first-class matches he scored a
total of 16,928 runs, which included 42 centuries. In Tests against
England he made 2,263 runs with six centuries.
35.
SIR JOHN DUNNINGHAM (1884-1938) Mayor of Randwick 192728. Book maker
and treasurer of Tattersall's Club 192831. Parliamentarian from
1928, he was minister in charge of Australia's 150th Anniversary
celebrations. as well as for the Coronation, in 1937.
36.
FRANCIS O'BRIEN (1816-1896) owner of the Bondi Estate of 51 acres
his private ownership of Bondi Beach finally ended in 1882, when
public access to the beach became free.
37a.
GEORGE MURE BLACK (1854-1936) politician and journalist. Subeditor
of the Bulletin, a member of the initial Labor Party and elected in
1891, he became a Cabinet Minister in 1915, and Colonial Secretary
1916.
37b.
ROSALIND SINGLETON BLACK (1865-1917) Vice-President of the Red Cross
Society amongst many others, and a valiant worker for hospitals,
women and infants.
38.
EVELYN 'QUEENIE' PAUL actress, nightclub entertainer, "a great
lady of Australian show-business". Final curtain 31st July,
1982, aged 87, after 71 years on stage.
39.
RODERIC JOSEPH QUINN C18671949) poet and writer. He wrote in a
period "when melody in Australian poetry took on a wistful,
penetrating mood". A friend and contemporary of Henry Lawson.
40.
TOMB OF THE FRANCISCAN FATHERS of Mary Immaculate Church and Friary,
Waverley.
41.
JOSEPH BARRACLUFF (1861-1918) Mayor of Waverley 19141915, he owned
and operated an ostrich farm along Old South Head Road from 1889,
covering some 10 acres, when ostrich feathers were popular for
ladies' hats. fans and dress ornaments.
42.
HENRY LAWSON (1867-1922) famous writer and poet. "He was the
poet of Australia, the minstrel of the people". His long
association with the Bulletin began in 1887. His portrait is on the
$10 note.
43.
DAME CONSTANCE D'ARCY (1979-1950) obstetrician and gynaecologist.
First woman to be appointed an honorary staff member of the Royal
Hospital for Women, in 1908. A founder of Rachel Forster Hospital,
Deputy Chancellor of the University of Sydney, in 1943.
44.
THOMAS HOGAN "Father of Waverley Council". Alderman for 22
consecutive years (19331955). Mayor of Waverley 1940, 1943, 1949.
