John Miller Tregenza (1931-1999)
Papers

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Series 5: Australian Dictionary of Biography  (34 cm)

Correspondence with Douglas Pike re the Australian Dictionary of Biography project, together with articles by Tregenza for the Dictionary. 1963-68 and 1976. 1 cm.

ADB: SA Working Party. Minutes and notes 1963-75 (2 folders)

ADB: SA Working Party. ADB Period 3 1891-1939 (4 folders)

• [SA] National Register cards (poor quality photocopies)
• Suggested inclusions
• Notes and annotated lists of inclusions and exclusions
• Correspondence with John Playford 1967 re recommendations for SA Labor leaders to be included in ADB, with typescript list “Australian Labor Party personnel in the South Australian Legislature 1891-1957” / John Playford.

ADB Editorial Board. Minutes of meetings 1971-74.

William Giles
Notes on Giles prepared by Tregenza for the ADB entry. Correspondence with Douglas Pike re Giles 1963; ms and typed biographical notes (some by Douglas Pike); typed copy of inscription from Giles family vault, Clayton Memorial Church, Kensington, South Australia.

Henry Gyles Turner
orrespondence between Geoff Searle and Tregenza 1964-65 re his projected ADB entries on Pearson and Turner. Also ms notes on Turner compiled by Tregenza while a student at ANU, with photograph and sketch of Turner.

Correspondence and notes re ADB entry on J.H.S Heidenreich and Hermann Vogelsang 1969-70

Arthur Hardy
Typed and handwritten notes on Hardy for Tregenza’s ADB article, including:

• Photograph of Arthur Hardy and family, c1860
• Correspondence with Douglas Pike, Mabel Hardy, Dean W Berry and The Chancellor, University of Adelaide (June 1970)
• ‘Historical notes on ‘Claremont House’ originally known as ‘Hartley Bank’
• Extracts from Alfred Hardy’s Letter Book regarding the property Hartley Bank
• typewritten ‘Notes on Alfred Hardy (1813-1870) typed by Miss Mabel Hardy on a machine which Miss Daisy Bates once used [at Ooldea?] 1 June 1970
• Photocopy of Death Certificate for Arthur Hardy 14 July 1909
• Photocopied newspaper page ‘Correspondence’, The Standard, 22 February 1879
• Two photocopied pages, “Arthur Hardy’s Diary, 1838-1840” S.A. Archives 1133, pages labelled “Books read by Arthur Hardy on the voyage out”, attached is a newspaper clipping of unknown origin
• Notes on Foundation of the Glen Osmond Institute, Forms a Volunteer Rifle, Hardy’s Pastoral Pursuits, Hardy & Church life in South Australia etc

Charles Reade

• C.C. Reade & the early town planning movement: files extracted from arch folder of research, correspondence and notes prepared for the ADB article. Includes correspondence with the General Editor Geoffrey Searle
• Notes for Australian Dictionary of Biography article. Includes copy of paper by Goh Ban Lee, ‘A Spatial Dimension of Oedipus Complex – Urban Planning of Georgetown and Adelaide’ (1987) and notes on Reade in Northern Rhodesia and Federated Malay States
• Also folder of source materials: typescript ‘Charles Reade and the early Town Planning movements in Australia and New Zealand’; annotated typescript ‘Charles Reade and the passing of Australia’s first town planning Act, 1916-1920; photograph of Reade’s original house in Colonel Light Gardens; flyer for Rapi November Meeting featuring lecture by Tregenza re Reade 17/11/1982; correspondence with R.G. Freestone 1980 re publication of an article on Reade
• Folder of research material: article ‘Engineer’s responsibility to the community’ 1979 and discussion paper ‘Planning for the future’ 1977 / P.J. Fargher; notes on and sources for town planning; chronology of Reade’s career; photocopied articles on town planning; copy of “SA Planning and Development of Towns and Cities in South Australia: Report by the Government Town Planner” [Charles Reade] 1919; notebook ‘Charles C. Reade: Town Planning Missionary’; correspondence and plan for a proposed 1984 publication by Alan Hutchings ‘The History of Town Planning in South Australia’; notes on places planned by Reade; photographs of Colonel Light Gardens, Prospect and Reade’s house at Brighton
• Notes and sources on town planning including: ‘The introduction of statuatory planning into South Australia’ from John Roder’s Master of Town Planning thesis 1972; Address by the Town Clerk of Sydney o the history of Sydney municipality 18/5/1953; Preface by Henrietta Barnett to the History of the Hampstead Garden Suburb; typed and ms notes on Reade
• ‘Charles Reade – architect of Australia’s first town planning act’ / Tregenza (Tom McKenna Memorial Lecture 1982); notes on town planning etc

Charles Henry Pearson
Annotated typescript of ADB entry by Tregenza (20 p.)

Notes for ADB articles proposed or not completed (Alfred Roy & Frederick Neill Le Messurier, Mary Dawbarn, Victor Herbert Ryan, Susan Edgar)

Dictionary of Biography reference group (Joyce Gibberd, John Playford, John Tregenza, Eric Richards, Hugh Stretton, Richard Dare) Letter July 1984 from Robert Dare to members of the Dictionary of Biography Reference Group; list of South Australians in the Australian Dictionary of Biography; Australian Biographical & Genealogical Record Newsletter, Jan 1983 no. 1, January 1984 no. 1 (photocopies).

New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford UP) 1996-99
Proof copy, research notes and documentation for Tregenza’s article on Charles Henry Pearson; 1999 correspondence re Tregenza’s concern with accuracy of projected article on William Light

See also Series 2.4 for Tregenza’s draft National Dictionary of Biography entry for Pearson