Stenhouse and Hardy - Papers

*D 80 - *D 81

fonds

1833 - 1888?

449164

Microfilm : CY 1478(B), frames 63-141 (*D 80).
Microfilm : CY 2269, frames 69-106 (*D 81).

2 volumes - 0.05 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
Textual Records - (printed)

Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse (1806-1873), lawyer and literary patron, was born on 27 June 1806 at Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland. With opportunities limited in Edingburgh, Stenhouse migrated to Sydney arriving on 22 October 1839 as a steerage passenger in the Georgiana. Admitted as a solicitor on 1 April 1840, he practiced in Sydney with William Hardy until 1872. He accumuled one of the best private collections of classical, religious and European literature in the colony, which he lent freely. His home, Waterview House, Balmain, became in the 1850s and 1860s a centre for such colonial writers and intellectuals as Richard Rowe, Frank Fowler, Charles Charles Harpur, Henry Kendall, J. S. Moore, J. L Michael, Henry Halloran W. B. Dalley, Henry Parkes and professors John Woolley and Charles Badham. A commitee-man of the Australian Library and and Literary Institution in 1857-69 he was a foundation trustee of the Free Public Library in 1869-73. His library of some 4000 titles was brought by the philanthropist Thomas Walker and donated to the University of Sydney in 1878, it helped to promote the foundation of the [Thomas] Fisher Library. -- Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 6, Melbourne University Press, 1978.

1843-1888?; List of handwritten entries with name, date of birth, birthplace, physical description, religion, ship, arrival in colony, crime, place and date, sentence, assignment, to whom the prisoner was delivered, date, reason for leaving service and punishment. Also contains printed brochures advertising land sales and indentures for mining, mineral leases (Red Hill, Hill, Spring Gully). (Call No.: *D 80)
1833-1885; Copies of wills and probate of Stenhouse & Hardy Solicitors concerning the following estates of Margaret Blackell, John Ellison, Francis Forbes, Elizabeth Henry, James Henry, Anne Hicks, William Howe, William Thomson, Robert Ward. (Call No.: *D 81)

David Scott Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.

D.S. Mitchell signature.