His middle name at birth was Sidney ; he changed the spelling to Sydney in 1898.

Tree often starred in the theatre's dramatizations of popular nineteenth-century novels, such as Sydney Grundy's adaptation of Dumas's Musketeers ( 1898 ); Tolstoy's Resurrection ( 1903 ); Dickens's Oliver Twist ( 1905 ), The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( 1908 ) and David Copperfield ( 1914 ); and Morton's dramatization of Thackeray's The Newcomes, called Colonel Newcome ( 1906 ), among others.

In the referendum campaign after the close of the Australasian Federal Convention, Reid, on 28 March 1898, made his famous " Yes-No " speech at the Sydney town hall.

Albert Sidney ( or Sydney ) Hornby, usually just A. S. Hornby, 1898 – 1978, was an English grammarian, lexicographer, and pioneer in the field of English language learning and teaching ( ELT ).

At the later conventions, in Adelaide in 1897, in Sydney later the same year and in Melbourne in early 1898, there were changes to the earlier draft.

It met first in Adelaide in March 1897, secondly in Sydney in August, and thirdly in Melbourne in the sweltering heat of January 1898.

In 1898, a group of residents promoted Wagga Wagga for consideration as the site of the future national capital due to its location equidistant from Sydney and Melbourne and its ample water supply.

The Romanesque landmark Queen Victoria Building ( QVB ), designed by George McRae, was completed in 1898 on the site of the old Sydney markets.

The Princes Highway is a road in Australia, extending from Sydney to Port Augusta via the coast through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, a distance of 1941 km ( along Highway 1 ) or 1898 km via the former alignments of the highway.

The PHM also has Sydney trams C11 ( 1898 ), O805 ( 1909 ), R1738 ( 1938.

In 1898, Sydney cycle firm, Gavin Gibson Ltd, imported seven motorised tricycles produced by Count Jules-Albert de Dion and powered by one cylinder petrol engines designed by his partner Georges Bouton.

While the required docks were constructed, the Bruce operated between Little Placentia Sound and North Sydney, Nova Scotia from October, 1897 until June, 1898.

On June 30, 1898, the first passenger train arrived in Port aux Basques, and the Bruce departed for North Sydney shortly afterward.

He moved to Sydney in 1898, and took up a position as private secretary and literary advisor to J. C. Williamson, a noted theatrical manager.

In 1898, Strathfield council was threatened by a forced amalgamation into a greater Sydney council.

Supporters included Sidney Webb, who visited Sydney in 1898, as well as John Daniel Fitzgerald, who was a journalist, editor, barrister, and politician and who was deeply involved in municipal affairs.

In Sydney in 1898, he founded the bohemian Dawn and Dusk Club, which had many notable members such as writer Henry Lawson.

The Convention held meetings over the course of a year, beginning first in Adelaide in 1897, later meeting in Sydney, and culminating in Melbourne in March 1898.

* National Australasian Convention, 1891 to 1898, Official Record of the Proceedings … ( Sydney 1891, Adelaide 1897, Sydney 1898 and Melbourne 1898 )

Sydney Le Blanc, age 15, Staten Island, N.Y., showing a Doberman Pinscher, was 2nd.

Adelaide was not as badly hit as the larger gold-rush cities of Sydney and Melbourne, and silver and lead discoveries at Broken Hill provided some relief.

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

A garbled version of this eventually found its way into the English press when Phillip was appointed in 1786 to lead the expedition to Sydney.

Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.

In October 1786, Phillip was appointed captain of and named Governor-designate of New South Wales, the proposed British colony on the east coast of Australia, by Lord Sydney, the Home Secretary.

With limited supplies, the cultivation of food was imperative, but the soils around Sydney were poor, the climate was unfamiliar, and moreover very few of the convicts had any knowledge of agriculture.

Lord Sydney, often criticised as an ineffectual incompetent, had made one fundamental decision about the settlement that was to influence it from the start.

By 1792 the colony was well established, though Sydney remained an unplanned huddle of wooden huts and tents.

The whaling industry was established, ships were visiting Sydney to trade, and convicts whose sentences had expired were taking up farming.

The first party to successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by Gregory Blaxland in 1813, 25 years after the colony was established.

This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2 – 1. Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG.

Sydney was named as a tribute to one of Lara's favourite grounds, the Sydney Cricket Ground, where Lara scored his first Test century-the highly acclaimed 277 in the 1992 – 93 season.

At the same time, however, the so-called bunyip skull was put on display in the Australian Museum ( Sydney ) for two days.

The quadrangle at the centre of Smirke's design proved to be a waste of valuable space and was filled at Panizzi's request by a circular Reading Room of cast iron, designed by Smirke's brother, Sydney Smirke.

The Round Reading Room, which was designed by the architect Sydney Smirke, opened in 1857.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

He was indeed released in August 1916, but twelve mostly prominent IWW activists, the so-called Sydney Twelve were arrested in NSW in September 1916 for arson and other offences.

Sydney has a prominent indie or lo-fi scene which features many rising, internationally touring bands such as Royal Headache, Circle Pit, Electric Flu, Raw Prawn, Bed Wettin ' Bad Boys and Dead Farmers.

Childe went on to study for a degree in Classics at the University of Sydney in 1911, where although he focused on the study of written sources, he first came across classical archaeology through the works of prominent archaeologists like Heinrich Schliemann and Sir Arthur Evans.

A representative collection of Sydney Libertarian essays was published by L. R. Hiatt in The Sydney Line, printed in 1963 by the Hellenic Herald, whose proprietor Nestor Grivas was a prominent non-academic Push personality and champion of sexual freedom.

Horse racing has had a prominent place in Australian culture since early days, with the first spectator sports event in Australia being NSW Governor Macquarie's race meeting at Hyde Park, Sydney in 1810.

They are prominent throughout western ( Perth ), eastern ( Sydney ) and southern ( Adelaide ) parts of Australia, in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome that cover the Mediterranean Basin, Californian woodlands, Chilean Matorral, and the Cape Province of South Africa.

Philip Sydney Stott, third son of Abraham and later titled as Sir Philip Stott, 1st Baronet, was the most prominent and famous of the Stott mill architects.

It received very wide support from New South Wales organisations related to child health and welfare and was backed by several prominent members of the medical profession, particularly in the paediatric field, notably Dr. John Yu, CEO of Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney ( who had been honoured by the Australian Government with the prestigious Australian of the Year award in 1996 ).

Shortly after his return, Cunningham made an excursion south from Sydney, ascending the prominent peak of Mount Keira overlooking the Illawarra region and present day Wollongong.

His family has remained prominent in Sydney society, and his great-grandson William Wentworth IV was a Liberal member of Parliament 1949-77.

The school is well known for producing a number of prominent alumni, known as " Old Boys ", with many active ex-student organisations including the Sydney High School Old Boys Union, the High Club and High Rugby Friends.

Among the party's founders were a prominent Sydney trade unionist, John Garden, Adela Pankhurst ( daughter of the British suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst ) and most of the then illegal Australian section of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ).

He became a prominent industrial lawyer in Sydney, working mainly for trade union clients.

Part one: prominent speakers of the Sydney Domain ( 1994 ) by Stephen Maxwell

* William Sydney Wilson ( 1816 – 1862 ), prominent Confederate politician

The Cahill Expressway is a prominent feature of the quay, running from the east, over the elevated railway station to join the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the west.

One of the most prominent expressions of this ethos is the daily Mass at the university chapels ; 12: 30 in Fremantle and 12: 35 in Sydney.

Catholics and Catholic charitable organisations, hospitals and schools have played a prominent role in welfare and education in Australia ever since Colonial times when Catholic laywoman Caroline Chisholm helped single migrant women and rescued homeless girls in Sydney.

He began his radio career in 1953 at 3BO in Bendigo before working at several rural radio stations prior to joining 2UE in 1957, the first of four terms at that Sydney radio station, during which time Laws, ( along with Bob Rogers, Tony Withersand and Stan Rofe ) became prominent as one of the first Australian disc jockeys to play rock ' n ' roll music.

At that time, railways to the north, west and southwest of Sydney had already been constructed, and a committee of prominent citizens formed to investigate the idea felt that a railway might help to develop agricultural and mining potentials in the Illawarra.

Dr. John Job Crew Bradfield CMG ( 26 December 1867 – 23 September 1943 ) was a prominent Australian engineer who is best known for his work overseeing the design and building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Driver himself was a prominent MP and solicitor for the City of Sydney Council.

Sydney Box ( 29 April 1907 – 25 May 1983 ) was a British film producer and screenwriter, brother of another prominent British filmmaker, Betty Box.