* 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.

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.

* September 7 – The last known thylacine ( Tasmanian Tiger ), named Benjamin, dies in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

He named the resulting work Rose Hobart.

The county is named in honor of Colonel James Hobart Ford.

Corcoran was founded by Hobart Johnstone Whitley, a prominent land developer from southern California, promoter who platted some 150 towns in the West, who took the lead in building Corcoran ( the main street of the community is named in his honor ).

He named the settlement which later developed Hobart, after his brother, Frederick Hobart Earle, who never left England.

Within that province, the area known as modern-day Unity was part of a territory chartered in 1753 and named " Buckingham " after John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire.

The town of Hobart was named in honor of Garret Augustus Hobart ( June 3, 1844 – November 21, 1899 ) the 24th Vice President of the United States.

Hobart is named for Episcopal Bishop John Henry Hobart of New York who sent missionaries to the Oneida people and ministered to them after removal from New York to Wisconsin.

During her Hobart stay, she remained in her hotel, gave no other interviews, and did not visit the theatre named in her honour.

Baker was named after his uncle, Dr. Hobart Amory Hare, who was the obstetrician at his birth and president of the Jefferson Medical Hospital in Philadelphia.

* Elizabeth Street, a principal street of Hobart, Tasmania named after Macquarie's wife

Passing through the suburb of Kingston, south of Hobart, Tasmania, formerly Van Diemen's Land, is Brown's River, named in his honor, upon the banks of which, he collected botanical samples.

John Bowen ( 1780 – 1827 ), son of James Bowen, a naval officer and colonial administrator ; in 1803 founded the first settlement of Tasmania at Risdon Cove, later named Hobart.

Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy ( RAN ) have been named HMAS Hobart, for Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania.

The town of Hobart, Tasmania, was named in honour of Lord Buckinghamshire.

The Friends ' School, Hobart named one of the four school houses after him.

The last full-blooded tribal-born Palawa from the Oyster Cove community, a woman named Trugernanner ( often rendered as Truganini ), died in 1876 in Hobart.

Names of the ships include: Arkadion ( named after the Arkadi Monastery, sunk by the Turkish sloop-of-war Dere in August 1867 ); Hydra ; Panhellenion ; and Enosis ( Unification ), which was detained in Syros by Hobart Pasha in December 1868, just about the time the rebellion collapsed.

In 1842 he was named as Bishop-Elect of Hobart, Tasmania, and had to leave the work in Nottingham before completion.

Other residents include the Carver family-David, Pie, and their children Ralph and Ellen ; Tom Billingsly, a retired veterinarian ; Peter and Mary Jackson-the latter is having an affair ; the empty Hobart place ; then a creepy ex-cop named Collie Entragian.