Henry Gilbert Smith
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Henry Gilbert Smith | |
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| Member of Legislative Council of New South Wales | |
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| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". Northamptonshire, England |
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". Brighton, England |
| Citizenship | Australian |
| Relatives | Thomas Smith (nephew) |
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Henry Gilbert Smith, MLC (1802 – 1 April 1886) was an English-born Australian politician, businessman and banker, known as the "Father of Manly".[1] He was the founder and developer of the Sydney suburb of Manly, where he built Fairlight House facing Delwood Beach. He was the chairman of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney (now National Australia Bank), of which his nephew Thomas Smith was the managing director and deputy chairman.[2]
Biography
Smith was born in Northamptonshire, England to Thomas Smith and Frances Flesher. He migrated to Tasmania in 1827 and from there to Sydney, acquiring land on the Molonglo Plain. In 1839 he married Eleanor Whistler; he would later remarry Anne Margaret Thomas in 1856 and Anna Louisa Lloyd later than that.[3] With his brothers Eustace Smith and Thomas Smith, he ran an importing and mercantile firm called Smith Bros in the early 1830s. He later became a director of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney (now National Australia Bank).[4]
He was the brother of Thomas Smith and thereby the uncle of Australian politician and banker Thomas Whistler Smith, who was the deputy chairman and managing director of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney.[5] From 1856 to 1858 he was an appointed member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Smith died at Brighton in England in 1886.[6]
Smith was the founder and developer of the Sydney suburb of Manly, where he built a home called Fairlight House facing Delwood Beach. It was demolished in 1939.[7] A more lasting memorial was erected by Smith in 1856, in the form of a large statue of a kangaroo, located in Kangaroo Street, Manly.[8]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Manly Heritage Plaques - Manly & Northern Beaches Australia". www.manlyaustralia.com.au. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pike, A. F., "Smith, Henry Gilbert (1802–1886)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 16 February 2020
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pike, A. F., "Smith, Henry Gilbert (1802–1886)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 16 February 2020
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Parsons, Vivienne, "Smith, Thomas Whistler (1824–1859)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 16 February 2020
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pike, A. F., "Smith, Henry Gilbert (1802–1886)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 16 February 2020
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