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] South Australian pastoralist and philanthropist.
Tom Barr Smith was born in Woodville, South Australia , the son of Robert Barr Smith ,[ 2] 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] 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]
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 Australian National University . ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7 ISSN 1833-7538 . OCLC 70677943 . Retrieved 15 December 2013 .
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Serle, Percival (1949). "Barr Smith, Robert" . Dictionary of Australian Biography Angus & Robertson .
^ Burn, Margy (1982), The Barr Smith Library: its early days , University of Adelaide Library, hdl :2440/15901 , ISBN 978-0-909766-04-7 ^ 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.
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