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09-July-2021
09-July-2021
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The plaque commemorates former parliamentary officer, Frederick Halcomb (1836 - 1919), who was a warden of the Cathedral from 1872 to 1919. 

Halcomb was a member of the Senate of the University of Adelaide from 1877. In earlier days he had been an enthusiastic oarsman and later became captain of the university boat club. At public examinations he was an examiner in Latin and Greek and he was also a governor of the Collegiate School of St Peter. From 1872 he lived in the Walkerville district and his Short history of St Andrew's Church, Walkerville by a Warden was published in 1914. An amateur painter, he executed in the church, by the light of a candle, a hand-painted reredos

 

Location

Address:27 King William Street, St Peter`s Cathedral , North Adelaide, 5006
State:SA
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -34.913048
Long: 138.59837
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
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Details

Monument Type:Plaque
Monument Theme:People
Sub-Theme:Religion
Approx. Event Start Date:1872
Approx. Event End Date:1919
Link:http://adb.anu.edu.au/
Source: MA, ADB
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