* Sally Hobart Alexander became blind when she was about 25 and a schoolteacher, during the 1970s, because of an eye disease.

In 1927, he met and married Elizabeth Carver, née Hobart, widow of Oswald Carver, Olympic rowing medalist who was killed in the First World War.

Elizabeth Carver was the sister of the Second World War commander Percy Hobart.

Hobart was named Australia's 6th most sustainable city, by the Australian Conservation Foundation in 2010.

Besides the bid for an AFL club which was passed over in favour of a second Queenland team, despite several major local businesses and the Premier pioneering for a club, there is also a Hobart bid for entry into the A-League.

In 2009, it was announced that Hobart Airport would receive more upgrades, including a first floor, aerobridges ( currently, passengers must walk on the tarmac ), and shopping facilities.

Amundsen ’ s success was publicly announced on 7 March 1912, when he arrived at Hobart, Australia.

According to Turner's narrative, he urged — and Hobart agreed — that before its final deposit in the museum, the stone should be presented to scholars at the Society of Antiquaries of London, of which Turner was a member.

Major-General Ralph Darling was appointed Governor of New South Wales In 1825, and in the same year he visited Hobart Town, and on December 3 proclaimed the establishment of the independent colony, of which he actually became Governor for three days.

Garret Hobart, the first Vice President under William McKinley, was one of the very few Vice Presidents at this time who played an important role in the administration.

A close confidant and adviser of the President, Hobart was called " Assistant President.

The day before Patton was scheduled to leave Europe for a permanent trip back to the U. S., he and his chief of staff, Major General Hobart R. " Hap " Gay, were on a day trip to hunt pheasants in the country outside Mannheim, Germany.

But with the assistance of two aunts, he was able to resume his education at the Philip Smith Teachers ' Training College, Hobart, and became a teacher.

Martin Bryant, a 28-year-old from New Town, a suburb of Hobart, eventually pleaded guilty to the crimes and was given 35 life sentences without possibility of parole.

He championed the rights of worker to organise through trades unions, universal suffrage ( including women's suffrage ) and the rights to a fair trial-all issues which today we take for granted, but were so radical in the 1880s that he was described as a ' communist ' by the Hobart Mercury.

Clark was born in Hobart, Tasmania.

He was educated at Hobart High School.

He was attacked by the Hobart Mercury for " holding such very extreme ultra-republican, if not revolutionary, ideas " that his proper place should be among the ' Communists ', and the Launceston Examiner as " stranger from Hobart ".

In 1887, Clark was re-elected, in a by-election as member for East Hobart.

In 1888, he was re-elected as member for South Hobart and remained there until the seat was abolished 1897.

He was then the member for Hobart until he resigned upon his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1898.

The party was transferred to the fledgling settlement of Hobart, founded by Lieutenant John Bowen as a penal colony at Risdon Cove in September 1803.

Errol Flynn was born in Hobart, Tasmania, where his father, Theodore Thomson Flynn, was a lecturer ( 1909 ) and later professor ( 1911 ) of biology at the University of Tasmania.

Also, Henrietta Hobart, daughter of the fourth Baronet and sister of the first Earl, was a longtime mistress of King George II.

One evening Jekyll attends a party at the home of his fiancee Muriel Carew ( Rose Hobart ), the daughter of Brigadier General Sir Danvers Carew ( Halliwell Hobbes ).

During a specially convened Labor Conference in Hobart in May 1955 the " Groupers " were expelled from the Labor Party and Calwell chose to stay within the party.

The party was formed on 23 March 1972, during a meeting of the Lake Pedder Action Group ( LPAG ) at the Hobart town hall in order to field political candidates in the April 1972 state election.

The 2002 election saw a major resurgence of their popularity, with the party winning 4 seats, and outpolling the Liberal party in the Hobart based seat of Denison.

* 1803: Lieutenant John Bowen's 49-member party, with the ships and Albion, starts first European settlement of Tasmania at Risdon Cove, naming it Hobart.

* 1804: Lieutenant-Colonel David Collins ' 262-member party lands at Sullivans Cove in February ; the settlement, which becomes known as Hobart Town, grows to 433 with arrival in June of rest of his Port Phillip party.

* 1807: Lieutenant Thomas Laycock leads five-man party on first overland journey from Launceston to Hobart, taking nine days, mainly to seek supplies for the northern settlement.

Hobart had not received news that war had broken out, and Captain J. T. Richardson and party claimed to be a quarantine inspection team.

The mountain was first climbed in December 1837 by the explorers Robert Cock, William Finlayson, A. Wyatt and G. Barton, when they passed through the area on their expedition from Adelaide to Lake Alexandrina, although a claim by John Barton Hack that his party of Stuart, John Morphett, bushman Tom Davies and " a gentleman from Hobart Town " were, in 1837, the first white men to climb the hill, is credible.

The party landed in Hobart in September and in January Gilbert and Gould travelled overland together to Launceston.

Bushranger Matthew Brady was among a party that successfully escaped to Hobart in 1824 after tying up their overseer and seizing a boat.

Constitution Dock is famous for being the rallying point and party venue for the annual Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, held from Boxing Day ( the day after Christmas Day ) until yachts complete their 630 nautical mile journey from Sydney.

Lieut-Col David Collins finally established a successful settlement at Hobart in February 1804 with a party of about 260 people, including 178 convicts.

In 1823 the Presbyterian Church's first official ministry in Australia occurred in Hobart and the first Tasmanian bank, Bank of Van Diemen's Land, was established.

His first official act as Missionary Bishop, in what would become Wisconsin, was the laying of the cornerstone for a new frame church building for Hobart Church, Duck Creek, which served the Oneida Indian Mission.

Sharp was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1921, according to official military records and his own claims, even though reference sources cite 1922 as his year of birth.

Bracewell also controversially called Australian Fast-bowler Shaun Tait a chucker, and copped a lot of criticism from the cricketing community and also ' revealing ' that Adam Gilchrist ducked out of the One-Day match in Hobart because of family issues but shortly, Bracewell withdrew these comments and issued an official apology.

Eron ’ s mortgage license was suspended by Hobart acting in his official capacity as Mortgage Broker Registrar under the Act.