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	Thomas Brisbane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet, GCH GCB (July 23, 1773 – January 27, 1860), soldier, colonial Governor and astronomer, was born at Largs in Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of Sir Thomas Brisbane.
		Generally Brisbane's administration had a good effect on the morality of the colony, as the number of persons convicted at the criminal court fell from 208 in 1822 to 100 in 1824.
		Brisbane did good work as a governor, and was the ideal man to be in that position when the first step from autocracy to responsible government was made by establishing the nominee council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Brisbane (1381 words)

	Brisbane - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Brisbane has a large number of buildings of architectural merit, though in some cases their effect is marred by the narrowness of the streets in which they stand.
		Brisbane is well provided with parks and open spaces; the Victoria Park and Bowen Park are the largest; the high-lying Mount Coot-tha commands fine views, and there are other parks and numerous recreation grounds in various parts of the city, besides the admirable botanical gardens and the gardens of the Acclimatization Society.
		By careful dredging, the broad river is navigable as far as Brisbane for ocean-going vessels, and the port is the terminal port for the Queensland mail steamers to Europe, and is visited by steamers to China, Japan and America, and for various inter-colonial lines.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Brisbane (666 words)

	Brisbane
		Thomas Brisbane is witness to a charter by Robert duke of Albany, dated at Perth, 22d September 1409.
		Shaw accordingly became James Brisbane of Brisbane, In 1671 he acquired the lands of Over Kelsoland, already mentioned, now forming part of the estate of Brisbane, and about the same period he disposed of the estate of Bishoptoun to different people, to be held in feu of himself and his heirs.
		Thomas, his second son, married, in 1715, Isabel, daughter of Sir Thomas Nicolson of Ladykirk, by whom he had two sons, of whom John, the second son, entered the navy, and distinguished himself in the American war.
	www.electricscotland.com /History/nation/brisbane.htm (1604 words)

	Brisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		BRISBANE, SIR THOMAS MAKDOUGALL [Brisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall], 1773-1860, British soldier, astronomer, and colonial administrator in Australia, b.
		Brisbane had an observatory built (1822) at Paramatta, near Sydney, where work was done (1822-26) resulting in the "Brisbane Catalogue" of 7,385 stars.
		The city of Brisbane and the Brisbane River in Australia were named for him.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BrisbaneT1M1.asp (184 words)

	Brisbane, Sir Thomas MakDougall
		Brisbane had always been interested in astronomy and in 1808 had erected an observatory near his house in Ayrshire.
		Brisbane had no desire to be an autocrat and encouraged the development of the council by continually bringing matters before it for consideration.
		One official piece of exploration carried out by John Oxley (q.v.) during Brisbane's administration eventually led to the colonization of Queensland, and the private expedition of Hamilton Hume (q.v.) and W. Hovell (q.v.) first drew attention to the possibilities of the colonization of what is now Victoria.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/australia/brisbane_thomas.htm (1102 words)

	Search Results for "Brisbane"
		Brisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall, (briz´bn, -ban) (KEY), 1773-1860, British soldier, astronomer, and colonial administrator in Australia, b.
		Brisbane (BRIZ-bayn, BRIZ-buhn) Capital of Queensland state and largest city in the state; located in eastern Australia on the Pacific Ocean; the third-largest city...
		Brisbane is the capital; other important cities are Gold Coast, Toowoomba,...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Brisbane (286 words)

	Named After Thomas Brisbane - Thomas Brisbane
		Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane (July 23, 1773 — January 27, 1860) was a soldier, colonial Governor and astronomer.
		Brisbane was born at Largs in Ayrshire, Scotland.
		He founded a gold medal for the encouragement of scientific research to be awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /AAVSO1604/thomas-brisbane-named-after-thomas-brisbane.html (472 words)

	Scottish Place Names - Brisbane, Australia
		It was chosen in 1823 by John Oxley, Surveyor-General and explorer, in honour of Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane (1773-1860), Governor-General of New South Wales.
		The river was named in honour of Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane who succeeded Macquarie (a fellow Scotsman) as Governor of New South Wales in 1821.
		In Brisbane, the name goes back to the 1830s and appears to be purely descriptive of new farmland that had been cultivated to replace a previous farming area for the young penal colony.
	www.rampantscotland.com /placenames/placename_brisbane.htm (4577 words)

	The History of Brisbane - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
		Two convicts, Thomas Pamphlett and his companion Finnegan had been stranded in Moreton Bay after their timber collecting voyage was blown off course in a fierce storm and wrecked their boat.
		Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, while not a sailor, served in Her Majesty’s Army from 1789 to 1841.
		Brisbane was a keen astronomer and from his Parramatta (Sydney) observatory he catalogued more than 7000 stars.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/The-History-of-Brisbane-176159.html (1336 words)

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		Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, after whom the city of Brisbane was named, is credited as being the founder of organised science in Australia.
		Sir Thomas Brisbane's role in astronomy is commemorated by two stars in the City of Brisbane's coat-of-arms.
		One of Brisbane's brass telescopes is now owned by the Brisbane City Council, as is the copy of the "Brisbane Catalogue of Stars" he presented to his daughter Isabella.
	thecouriermail.com.au /extras/headstart/activities_arch/brisbane_planetarium_2003.htm (1498 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Br-By
		One official piece of exploration carried out by John Oxley (q.v.) during Brisbane's administration eventually led to the colonization of Queensland, and the private expedition of Hamilton Hume (q.v.) and W.
		The worst of these, that he had connived at sending female convicts to Emu plains for immoral purposes, was investigated by William Stewart, the lieutenant-governor, John Stephen, assistant judge, and the Rev.
		Having been returned to the assembly again, in January 1879 he became postmaster-general in McIlwraith's (q.v.) first ministry, and was responsible for the drafting of the divisional boards measure which was the foundation of later Queensland local government acts.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogBr-By.html (20800 words)

	Brisbane Sir Thomas Makdougall - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Brisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall (1773-1860), British soldier and colonial administrator after whom the city of Brisbane, capital of Queensland,...
		Elyot, Sir Thomas (1490?-1546), English scholar, translator, and diplomat.
		Thomas Johnstone Lipton was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Brisbane_Sir_Thomas_Makdougall.html (102 words)

	Kelsoland Manor House
		The house then became known as the Brisbane house as it was known until its destruction in 1939.
		This wooden door, was given to the Brisbane City Council by the Provost of Largs, birthplace of Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, after whom Brisbane Australia is named.
		It was formerly the main entrance door to Brisbane House, Sir Thomas' home at Largs; the house was demolished during the Second World War.
	joe_kelso.tripod.com /brisbane/kelsolandmanor.htm (733 words)

	The following Extract regarding the Ancestors of
		Previous to all these, there was a William Brisbane, chancellor of Scotland, anno 1332, mentioned in Hale's annals, in all probability an ancestor of the family before us, as its armorial bearings, the three cushions should seem to have been adopted in allusion to such civil office.
		Towards the end of the year 1806, Captain Brisbane was despatched from Jamaica, with a squadron of frigates, consisting of the Arethusa, Latona, and Anson, to reconnoitre the island of Curacoa, and to ascertain whether the inhabitants were disposed to an alliance with Great Britain.
		Under cover of a severe and destructive cannonade, Captain Brisbane landed with his boat's crew, when fort Amsterdam was instantly captured, the commodore himself being the first to scale the walls ; and by ten o'clock the same night the British flag, hoisted on fort Republique, announced the surrender of the entire island.
	www.brisbane.co.uk /BurkesCommoners.htm (1561 words)

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		Brisbane was educated at home by his God-fearing mother and several Presbyterian ministers or tutors, and at the University of Edinburgh, where he developed a love for astronomy and mathematics.
		A devoutly religious and a peace-loving man, Brisbane was reluctant to enter into the disputes between the Anglicans and the Roman Catholics or between the "exclusives" and the emancipists.
		Brisbane was motivated by the memory of a kindly paternal Methodist aunt and he believed the Methodists were "a highly valuable and respectable body, who [did] much good".
	users.netconnect.com.au /~nacl/history/southland/9governors.htm (7087 words)

	Brisbane
		Brisbane is Australia's third largest city and an administrative, commercial, industrial, and cultural center.
		The area was settled in 1824 as a penal colony, and the city was named in 1834 for Sir Thomas Brisbane, governor of New South Wales.
		Brisbane is the seat of the Univ. of Queensland (1909), a national art gallery (1895), a museum (1871), and a performing arts complex.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0808961.html (261 words)

	Federation and Meteorology, Origins of Australian Meteorology, page 815 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sir Thomas Brisbane was 48 when he first landed in Sydney to take over as Governor of the 33 year old colony of New South Wales.
		Brisbane's assistant was James Dunlop, who was born in Scotland in 1793 and attended night school while working in a factory.
		After Brisbane left the colony in 1824 Dunlop continued the observations at the observatory until 1826 and, after the observatory had closed down, maintained observations in his home until 1827 when he left to join Brisbane at an observatory established in Scotland.
	www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au /fam/0815.html (429 words)

	Eric Shackle's eBook - Brisbane
		Australia's third-largest city, Brisbane (population 1.3 million) is being urged to adopt the motto of its San Franciscan namesake sister city, and call itself The City of Stars.
		After all, the Oz city was named after a noted astronomer, Sir Thomas Brisbane, who catalogued 7385 stars in what was then the largely uncharted southern sky.
		Brisbane in Grant County, south-western North Dakota, is (or rather was) a Milwaukee Road Railroad station founded in 1910.
	www.bdb.co.za /shackle/articles/brisbane.htm (2004 words)

	RSSA 19th January 2004
		Thomas Brisbane (1773-1860) was governor of New South Wales between 1822 and 1826.
		After Brisbane's recall to the United Kingdom, he set up two further observatories, one astronomical and one meteorological, and in due course became a patron of scientific endeavour through his position as President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1833.
		This talk will examine Brisbane's role in astronomical and meteorological science, and assess whether his work deserves the oblivion to which it appears to have been consigned.
	www.rssa.org.uk /20040119.shtml (193 words)

	A HISTORY of PARRAMATTA OBSERVATORY
		Thomas Makdougall Brisbane was born on the 23rd July 1773 in Ayrshire, Scotland.
		Thomas Brisbane also announced his own personal desire to establish the first free-standing observatory in Australia.
		Brisbane died at the age of 86 on the 27th January, 1860 at Largs.
	homepage.mac.com /andjames/Page032.htm (3388 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, British And Irish History, Biographies
		Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane[briz´bun, –bAn] Pronunciation Key, 1773–1860, British soldier, astronomer, and colonial administrator in Australia, b.
		Brisbane had an observatory built (1822) at Paramatta, near Sydney, where work was done (1822–26) resulting in the "Brisbane Catalogue" of 7,385 stars.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrisbaneTM.html (297 words)

	Overview of Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Born in Largs (North Ayrshire), Brisbane was educated at the University of Edinburgh.
		Brisbane was elected President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1833, succeeding Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), and won the Society's Keith Prize in 1848 for his magnetic observations.
		He died at Brisbane House in Largs and the city of Brisbane is named after him.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/people/famousfirst15.html (223 words)

	SOUTHERN ASTRONOMERS and AUSTRALIAN ASTRONOMY
		Immediately upon the arrival of Sir Thomas Brisbane, in November, 1821, a site was selected for the Observatory in the rear of Government House, Parramatta, close to the present railway line where it cuts through the public park; the building was begun at once and finished ready for use by the end of April, 1822.
		He took an active part in the work; the most important part of which was the formation of the Parramatta catalogue, numbering 7,383 stars; for this every star had to be observed at least twice, once with the transit and once with the mural circle, and many were observed oftener.
		When Sir Thomas Brisbane left the Colony in 1827, the Government purchased all his interest in the Observatory, which was thenceforth carried on at the expense of the Government.
	homepage.mac.com /andjames/Page035.htm (4395 words)

	Neat Southern Planetaries 14
		Brisbane was educated at the University of Edinburgh and attended the English Academy at Kensington.
		After six years waiting, Brisbane was sent to the Colony to become the Sixth Governor of N.S.W., which he held between 1821 and 1825, replacing the renown Governor Macquarie.
		Brisbane was already a very keen amateur astronomer and Scottish Philanthropist, of some reputation.
	www.blackskies.org /nsp14.htm (3439 words)

	Brisbane Coat of Arms
		The ancient Dalriadan-Scottish name Brisbane is a nickname for a person who had sustained a broken bone.
		Members of the Brisbane family were found in the county of Renfrew (now part of the Strathclyde region), in Scotland, where the family can trace its origin to shortly after the Norman Conquest, in 1066.
		Brisbane with two children who landed in New Orleans in 1822.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/brisbane-coat-arms.htm (1142 words)

	Page Title
		Sir Thomas Brisbane was forty-eight years of age when he arrived to take over the governorship of New South Wales from Governor Lauchlan Macquarie in 1821.
		The name first used for the township on the Brisbane River was that suggested by Chief Justice Forbes, Edenglassie, but in 1834 the name of Brisbane became official.
		Lucinda Logan, the daughter of Thomas Logan, suggested the name which was agreed to by a meeting of local residents in 1868.
	www.dovenetq.net.au /~piula/Placenames/page10.html (951 words)

	BRISbites - Suburban Sites
		Brisbane nestles on a bend of the snaking river that has been so important to its development and character.
		In 1825 the city's position, 27 kilometres from the mouth of Moreton Bay, was chosen for its reliable water supply and because the upstream location would make escape difficult for the repeat offenders destined for the new colony.
		Surveyor General John Oxley explored the Moreton Bay area in 1823 and named the Brisbane River, in honour of the Governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825, Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane.
	www.brisbites.com /brishistory.asp (140 words)

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