352:(replaced by Richard Jagoe in March 1858). He also served as Health Officer 1855–1857. He then started in business as a flour merchant. His brother Daniel Eyre (died 1862) joined him in August 1857 by which time he was insolvent. Inundations of his Port Adelaide property resulted in substantial losses and his brother's illness took him away from the business and he was forced to plead insolvency. He was appointed Crown Lands Ranger sometime before June 1862. In 1874 he was appointed Clerk at the Local Court at
215:, Whitby was employed there. He subsequently acted as manager of Wirrealpa, Stewart's Creek, and many other of Angas's stations in the north. When the Willowie Land and Pastoral Association took over those properties, Whitby remained as manager of Willowie Station, Mount Remarkable and general overseer of other northern stations until 1889 (? elsewhere c 1898), when he retired. He was immensely popular among a wide circle of friends. Among his other activities were:
254:"Mr. Whitby and I were little boys together 60 years ago, and he and his brothers and mother were always my very dear friends. In common with his brother he had the gift of warm geniality, of absolute homeliness of manner, and of being incapable of doing a tricky or wrong thing, and a sense of humour that was absolutely original.".
139:. After a year, having fallen out with Bonnar, he joined Boucaut, but only stayed with him for a year. He then carried on business on his own account, and had the reputation as sound and able lawyer. From around 1872 he was mostly involved in drafting Bills for the SA Government, work for which he showed particular aptitude.
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in 1852. Their children included Edmund James
Rendell Eyre (1854– ), Charles Frederick Eyre (1860–1932), Florence Eyre (1862– ) married Francis Bayes in 1898, Henry Vernon Eyre (1854– ), Katherine Louisa Eyre (1866–1893), Frances Eyre (1868–1956), Arthur Ernest Eyre (1871–1944), Emily Eyre (1874– )
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The Course of
Instruction comprises—Ancient and Modern History, Grammar; Geography, Physical and Moral, with the use of the Globes; Composition, Writing and Arithmetic, Fancy Work in general. Drawing in Chalk and Pencil; Watercolour, Landscape, and Flower Painting; Music, Singing, Dancing, and the
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The facts of the case were somewhat more prosaic: The Clerk of the Court, Edmund John Eyre, laid an information against Whitby, who was no teetotaller, for using indecent language, but before the case was heard, Whitby apologized to Eyre, who agreed to withdraw the information if Whitby paid the
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He died without fanfare: a week before he had become ill and he was taken to Miss
Tibbits's Hospital, where he received all attention possible, attended by his lifelong friend Charles Aldridge, and died on Saturday morning at the age of 54. His remains were buried in the North-road
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Seminary the various improved systems of Education are combined and modified, in order to unite the comforts of home with the strictest discipline in the development of the mental faculties. Terms, 40 guineas per annum. One or two Vacancies for
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William Wyatt's 1851 survey of Government-approved and subsidised schools, of which there were 79 in South Australia, Whitby was receiving grants for 4 boys and 22 girls, and on the day of inspection she had 27 girls under instruction.
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published in his paper. On his return on 3 August 1880 he found that Whitby had given advice to Mrs. Moodie regarding separation from her husband, who was known to be violent towards her. Moodie promptly sought out the lawyer at
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Justice of the Peace and was frequently called upon to act as magistrate at Mt. Remarkable, and after retirement sat on the Bench of the Adelaide Police Court.
195:(c. 1840 – 12 January 1909), generally referred to as Frank or F. J. Whitby, was born in Yorkshire and, after arrival in Adelaide, was educated at Haire's academy and at
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October 1848. She founded a school for girls in Carrington Street in that year. The fate of Joseph Whitby is as yet not known. Whitby advertised that she was prepared
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England, then settled at Glenelg. Subsequently be visited Europe, America, and Japan several times.
264:(c. 1844 – 29 July 1898) was a solicitor in the colony of South Australia, the subject of several sensational reports of altercations. He was educated at
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Matilda, née Hunt, were at one stage on friendly terms with Whitby. In 1880 Moodie had become famous for having on 12 June 1880 thrashed
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773:. Vol. I, no. 1. South Australia. 17 July 1858. p. 2 (Supplement to the South Australian Weekly Chronicle.)
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John James Bonnar (c. 1861 – 14 July 1938) was master of his own school in Mount Barker before opening a legal practice.
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Geoffrey Castleden Whitby (26 Dec 1869 – 5 November 1953) married Lilian Rhoda Pickersgill on 30 April 1901, died in
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CARRINGTON HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT, South Adelaide.—Conducted by Mrs. WHITBY and qualified Assistants.
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Whitby married Frances Jane "Fanny" Wyly (1842 – 17 September 1924) at
29:– 12 November 1888) was founder and principal of a school for girls in
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115:(1838 – March 1875), generally known as J. J. Whitby, was educated at
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The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser
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Henrietta Lilian Whitby (12 Feb 1873 – 27 May 1882)
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893:– via National Library of Australia.
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809:– via National Library of Australia.
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740:– via National Library of Australia.
712:– via National Library of Australia.
684:– via National Library of Australia.
656:– via National Library of Australia.
610:– via National Library of Australia.
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532:– via National Library of Australia.
504:– via National Library of Australia.
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905:"The Late E. B. Whitby"
668:"Heads of Intelligence"
645:The Observer (Adelaide)
385:Williamstown Advertiser
382:MLC, proprietor of the
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289:Clerk for Way in 1866?
282:George Sydney Aldridge
793:"Audi Alteram Partem"
701:The Adelaide Observer
594:"Joseph James Whitby"
201:James Robin & Co.
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