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List of people from the greater Ashfield area

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This is a List of notable residents or former residents of the greater Ashfield area in Australia, covering the suburbs of the Municipality of Ashfield in Inner West of Sydney, including Ashfield, Croydon, Haberfield, and Summer Hill.

Arts

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Arthur Streeton
Pamela Travers

Business

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Quong Tart

Law

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Military

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Pioneers

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  • Augustus Alt (1731–1815): First surveyor-general of New South Wales; arrived with the First Fleet in 1788 and was granted a substantial parcel of land in northern Ashfield[23]
  • Robert Campbell (1769–1846): Early settler responsible for giving Ashfield its name[24]
  • David Ramsay (1794–1860): medical practitioner and merchant[25]
  • Elizabeth Underwood (ca. 1794–1858): Early landowner of Ashfield Park estate who subdivided it to form the village of Ashfield in 1838[26]

Politics

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Henry Parkes
Bertram Stevens

Also see List of mayors at the end of the page.

Science

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Edgeworth David
  • Richard Baker (1854–1941): Curator/Director of the Technological Museum in Ultimo (now known as the Powerhouse Museum); lived in Ashfield for 30 years in a house named "Eudesmia", which still stands; proponent of decorative use of the Waratah in logos and symbols[35]
  • Dr John Belisario (1820–1900): Dentist at the later end of the 19th century; recorded as living in Summer Hill in the 1891 census; first dentist in Australia to administer ether to a patient to carry out dental work[36]
  • Professor Edgeworth David (1858–1934): noted geologist and Antarctic explorer[37]
  • Walter Wilson Froggatt (1858–1937), entomologist, founder of the Naturalists' Society of New South Wales and author; Froggatt Crescent in Croydon, and the Froggatt prize for Science at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney are named after him[38]
  • Ian Clunies Ross (1899–1959): Veterinary scientist and founder of the CSIRO, he was for a while commemorated on the Australian $50 note[39]

Sport

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Stan Rowley

Other

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  • Margaret Chandler (1934–1963), one of the two victims who died under mysterious circumstances in the well-publicised Bogle-Chandler case; lived in Croydon with her husband Geoffrey[42]
  • Reverend Bill Crews (born 1944): As the Minister of Ashfield Uniting Church, he created the Exodus Foundation to assist homeless and abandoned youth[43]
  • David Elphinstone (1847–1916): prominent architect and builder and resident of Summer Hill
  • Edwin Johnson (1835–1894): Education reformer, undersecretary to the Department of Public Instruction[44]
  • Bea Miles (1902–1973): Eccentric Sydneysider, born in Ashfield but spent much of her later life living on the street and whose life was the inspiration for the book and movie, Lilian's Story[45]
  • Louise Taplin (1855–1901): Matron, until her death, of The Infants Home in Ashfield; led the home through the 1890s depression
  • Evelyn Tildesley (1882–1976): School teacher, principal of Normanhurst School from 1913 to 1925, when she was appointed acting principal of The Women's College at the University of Sydney. Awarded MBE in 1950[46]

Mayors of Ashfield

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# Mayor [47] Party Term start Term end Notes
1 John Pope   1872 1873
2 Daniel Holborow   1874 1880
3 Thomas Nicholson   1881 1881
4 Mark Hammond   1882 1884
5 John Watkin   1884 1884
1 (2nd term) John Pope   1885 1885
6 Joseph Mortley   1886 1887
7 Joseph Watkin   1888 1888
8 Thomas Dean   1888 1888
9 Robert Dougan   1889 1890
10 Albert Brown   1891 1892
11 Richard Stanton   1893 7 March 1895
12 Ninian Melville   Protectionist 8 March 1895 23 February 1896 [48]
13 John Upward   24 February 1896 1897 [49]
14 Francis Josephson   1898 1898
15 William Robson   Free Trade 1899 1899
16 John Mills   1900 1900
17 Ernest Broughton   Liberal Reform 1901 1902
18 Arthur Miller   Liberal Reform 1903 1905
11 (2nd term) Richard Stanton   1906 1906
19 Charles Webdale   1907 1907
20 George Brown   1908 1908
21 Herbert Pratten   Liberal Reform 1909 1911
22 Alfred Crane   Liberal Reform 1911 1912
23 Charles Algie   1913 1914
24 John Hammond   1915 1917
25 John Yeo   1917 1919
26 Frank Hedger   Nationalist 1919 1920
27 George Watson   Nationalist 1920 1922
24 (2nd term) John Hammond   1922 1923
28 D McDonald   Nationalist 1923 1925
26 (2nd term) Frank Hedger   Nationalist 1925 1929
29 Henry Gough   Nationalist 1929 1932
30 John Lapish   United Australia 1932 1933
31 William Grainger   United Australia 1933 1935
32 Thomas Cavill   United Australia 1935 1938
33 Edward Allman   United Australia 1938 1943
34 J Lindsay   1943 1944
32 (2nd term) Thomas Cavill   Liberal 1944 1946
35 Ralph Tetley   Liberal 1946 1948
36 Thomas Marshall   Independent 1948 1950
37 Richard Murden   Liberal 1950 1952
38 Herbert Bailey   Liberal 1952 1954
39 James Blackwood   1954 1957
40 Charles Bullivant   1957 1959
41 Darrell Jackson   1959 1962
42 William Peters   Labor 1962 1964
43 Bede Spillane   Labor 1964 1965
44 Allan Crawford   1965 1967
37 (2nd term) Richard Murden   Liberal December 1967 September 1972
45 Paul Whelan   Labor September 1972 September 1976
46 Lew Herman   Labor September 1976 September 1991
47 Dr John Ward   Independent September 1991 September 1995
46 (2nd term) Lew Herman   Labor September 1995 September 1996
48 Vincent Sicari   No Aircraft Noise September 1996 September 1997
49 Mark Bonanno   Labor September 1997 March 2004
50 Rae Desmond Jones   Labor March 2004 September 2006
51 Ted Cassidy   Independent September 2006 September 2011
52 Lyall Kennedy   Greens September 2011 September 2012
53 Morris Mansour   Independent September 2012 September 2013
54 Lucille McKenna   Labor September 2013 12 May 2016

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