Person

Cawthorne, William Anderson (1825 - 1897)

Born
25 September 1825
London, United Kingdom
Died
29 September 1897
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Conchologist, Headmaster and Teacher

Summary

William Cawthorne was a schoolmaster who arrived in Australia in 1841. He kept a journal (1844-1859) and other papers dating up to 1871 on the manners and customs of the Aboriginal people and on conchology, with special reference to South Australia 1858.

Details

Chronology

1841
Life event - Arrived in South Australia with his family
1846 - 1850
Career position - Schoolmaster, Adelaide Grammar School
1851
Career position - Foundation Member, South Australian Preceptors Association
1851 - 1855
Career position - Headmaster, Pulteney Grammar School, Adelaide
1852
Career position - Member, Central Board of Education
1855 - 1865
Career position - Headmaster, Victoria Square Academy, Adelaide
1870 - 1871
Career position - Published Monthly Review or Town and Country Advertiser
December 1870 - November 1873
Career position - Member, Adelaide City Council

Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • William Anderson Cawthorne - Records, 1842 - 1846, A103-5; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • William Anderson Cawthorne - Records, 1846 - 1855, B229; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • William Anderson Cawthorne - Records, 1849 - 1855, B230; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • William Anderson Cawthorne - Records, 1850 - 1883, B232; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • William Anderson Cawthorne - Records, 1858, B227; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • William Anderson Cawthorne - Records, 1864 - 1865, B228; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

  • William Anderson Cawthorne - Records, 1844 - 1860, PRG 489; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Cawthorne, W. A., Menge the Mineralogist: a sketch of the life of the late Johann Menge, linguist, mineralogist, &c. &c., an early colonist, and discoverer of precious stones in South Australia, containing also, his eccentric views on demonology, astronomy, &c. (Adelaide: J. T. Sawyer, 1859), 33 pp. Details
  • Cawthorne, W. A.: edited and introduced by Rick Hosking, The Kangaroo Islanders : a story of South Australia before colonisation 1823 (Mile End, S.A.: Wakefield Press, 2020), 283 pp. Details
  • Djuwita, Riawati, W. A. Cawthorne and early Adelaide: an artist's impression (Canberra: Australian National University, 1991), 119 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Cawthorne, W. A., 'Rough notes on the manners and customs of the natives, 1844', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society [of Australasia], South Australian Branch, 27 (1926), 44-77. Details

Resources

Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn

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