Robert Barr Smith

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Robert Barr Smith

Where: Adelaide, South Australia

When: 1880 [uncertain].

Uploaded: 22 Jun 2019 by Danny Stapleton.

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Danny Stapleton

[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Robert Barr Smith in seven eighths view. He was sole partner with Thomas Elder in the well known Adelaide firm Elder Smith & Co. and was director and shareholder of several pastoral, mining, Insurance companies and banks as well as the South Australian Company. He was an active philanthropist, giving large amounts to public institutions. He was greatly repected by all and is said to have refused a knighthood. - Subject: Barr Smith, Robert, 1824-1915

posted Jun 22, 2019 by Danny Stapleton

Danny Stapleton

Duryea, Townsend, (1854-1925, photographer), circa 1880, Robert Barr Smith, from the State Library of South Australia Portrait Collection online at: https://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=b2049465~S1 (This image has no known copyright restrictions)

posted Jun 22, 2019 by Danny Stapleton
edited Dec 24, 2019 by Danny Stapleton