tyneholm - 310 Elgar rd, box hill south

Isaac Snr then moved to Brighton in Melbourne close to where his son Henry Hall lived.

Isaac Snr sailed to England twice, once whilst still living at Tyneholm in 1912 aged 81 and again in 1914 aged 83 whilst living in Brighton; on each occasion he spent around five month’s most likely visiting his family and friends.

Isaac Hall Snr died in 1915 in Brighton in Melbourne and was buried with his wife Eleanor in the Box Hill cemetery. 

THE SONS OF ISAAC SNR AND ELEANOR HALL:

Eldest son - Henry E Hall was born in Collingwood in 1860 and became a tea broker and politician.

In 1877 at the age of 17 Henry joined the firm of James Henty and Co exporters of wool, wheat, whale oil and other merchandise to England.

In 1880 Henry left James Henty and Co and joined the firm of James Balfour and Co merchants.

In 1884 he created the firm of Henry E Hall - tea broker and commission agent and was located at 17 Phoenix Chambers in Market St, by 1890 he had moved the business to 375 Flinders Lane in Melbourne.

In 1885 Henry Hall married Isabella Darling the daughter of John and Isabella Darling (nee Ferguson). They were married at John Darling’s estate Ridge Park in South Australia. Mary’s father, John Darling was a member of the South Australian Parliament and became known as the ‘Grain King’, the largest exporter of Australian wheat to England and Europe. The firm of John Darling & Son also had interests in flour-milling and shipping with offices in Adelaide, Melbourne and London.

In Melbourne Henry and Isabella had four children – Frederick, John, Henry Jnr and Florence. 

By 1886 Henry and his family were living at Carlowrie on Dandenong Rd (now 553 Dandenong Rd) in Armadale as their first child Henry Jnr was born there. This house was sold in April 2021 and was subsequently demolished.

From 1887 to 1900 the family were living at Carlowrie on Prospect Hill in Camberwell as Frederick, John and Florence was born there - the house is still there.

By 1900 Henry and his family moved to Essendon where he served as a councillor in the Melbourne North Province.

It is interesting to note that in 1907 Henry ran for re- election as a representative of the Melbourne North Province in the Victorian Legislative Council. It was reported in The Argus newspaper on May 28, 1907 that ‘A meeting of the state Cabinet was held yesterday afternoon to consider the request made on behalf of three of the candidates for the Melbourne North Province – Councillor Hall, Councillor Showers, and Mr J. H. Maddock – that the Ministers should arbitrate between them so as to prevent the splitting of votes, which might enable the labour candidate to win with a minority vote’.

Sir Alexander Peacock, Mr. Mackay, Mr. Cameron, Mr. Sachse, Mr. Mackinnon, and Mr. Boyd were present at the Cabinet meeting, and it was decided after a short discussion that, as it had been the invariable custom of the Ministries not to interfere in Legislative Council elections, the request could not be acceded to’. It appears that Henry Hall was not elected.

By 1912 Henry and his family had moved to Brighton where he served for over 32 years as a Brighton Councillor and was twice made Mayor. He also served as a Justice of the Peace.

In 1928 Henry ran as a candidate in the Brighton By-Election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly, but he was not elected.

In 1934 Henry ran as a candidate in the South Eastern Province for the Victorian Legislative Council, but he was not elected. 

Henry was also involved in a number of social clubs and boards including Honorary treasurer since its formation of the Alfred Hospital Auxiliary; committee member of the Melbourne Orphanage, Dendy St, Brighton; vice-president of the Brighton branch of the R.S.L., the Soldiers' Fathers’ Association, Brighton Scottish Society, and of the Brighton Beach Life Saving Club; president Brighton Football Club, vice-president Brighton Second Eighteen - the Middle Brighton Football Club, R.A.C. (member of committee and a vice-president) and a member of the Executive of the Associated Clubs of Victoria.

He was also a keen yachtsman and owned the famous Idler a 21-foot ‘restricted class’ yacht. He was twice commodore of the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria, twice commodore of the Brighton Yacht Club, and a vice-president of the Royal St. Kilda Yacht Club.

Isabella Hall died in Kew in 1939 and Henry Hall died four years later in Brighton in 1943.

Another son - James Hall - was born in Williamstown in Victoria in 1862 and became a Solicitor.

James Hall attended Scotch College in Melbourne until 1877. After leaving school he entered the Civil Service but later left it and worked for Moore and Company – merchants. 

In 1881 James was working as ‘secretary’ to Matthew Davies later known as Sir Matthew Davies. 

In 1883 James enrolled at the Melbourne Law School as an Articled Law Clerk and completed his studies in 1884. 

Around 1884 James Hall was working for the firm of Messrs Davies, Price and Wighton Solicitors in the position of ‘clerk’. 

In 1888 Matthew Davies, Charles Price and James Wighton formed a syndicate and created the Victoria Park subdivision on the corner of Elgar and Canterbury Rd’s Surrey Hills (Box Hill South). 

On the sales flyer for the subdivision states ‘Apply to James Hall at the offices Messrs Davies, Price and Wighton Solicitors’. In the same year James passed the Bar examination and was admitted as a ‘solicitor’ of the Supreme Court.

The City of Whitehorse Heritage Review: Building Citations uses Andrew C Ward & Associates City of Box Hill Heritage and Conservation Study 1990 as a source and mentions: 

‘In 1888 James Hall, gentleman and solicitor, owned land in the Victoria Park Estate in Box Hill, comprising Lots 4,5,21 to 27 and 36A. Three years later, his father, Captain Isaac James Hall, built a brick house on Lot 4. It may have been designed by Frederick Smart, of distinguished architectural firm of Reed, Smart and Tappin’. 

This brick house was Tyneholm.

Rate records from 1890 to 1913 show that Lots 4,5,21 to 27 were owned by brothers ‘James Hall Solicitor of 17 Queen St, Melbourne’ and ‘Isaac Hall gentleman of Whitehorse Rd, Box Hill’. 

In 1889 James started his own law practice at the City Chambers on Elizabeth St in Melbourne with offices in Nicholson St in Footscray and Pier House in Morris St in Williamstown. In that same year he was elected to the position as Secretary of the Victorian Law Institute and served until 1895.

In 1890 James Hall married Ellen Fox. Ellen was born in 1866 in Maldon in Victoria to John and Mary Fox (nee Hart). James and Ellen Hall had three children – Ronald, James Jnr and Dorothy.

In 1895 James was appointed to the position as ‘Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Victoria’. 

From 1899 to 1905 James Hall served as Councillor and Mayor of Williamstown.

As mentioned previously James Hall worked for Sir Matthew Davies as a clerk. Sir Matthew Davies’s brother John Mark Davies who married Emily Scales. Emily was the sister of Amy Jacobs (nee Scales) who used to live at Spenceycroft in Surrey Hills and can be found on the Spenceycroft page on this website. 

A little about Sir Matthew Davies - 

Matthew Davies was born at Geelong in 1850, and educated at the Geelong College. In 1869 he matriculated at the University of Melbourne. In 1876 he was admitted a ‘solicitor’ of the Supreme Court of Victoria. 

In 1875 Matthew Davies married Elizabeth Locke Mercer, eldest daughter of the Rev. Peter Mercer, D.D., of Melbourne, a Presbyterian minister. They had seven children - Arnold, Marion, Henry, Beatrice, Muriel, Olive and Cecil.

By 1877 Matthew had become a major land speculator, taking advantage of the huge increase in land values in Victoria in the decades following the Gold Rush in the 1850s. By the early 1860s Matthew controlled a network of 40 companies, in which Victorian and overseas interests had invested millions of pounds.

In 1882 Matthew formed the Freehold Investment Company Limited and in the mid-1880s created the Windsor Park Estate in Surrey Hills. Windsor Crescent was named after this subdivision.

The layout of this estate and many of the houses built at that time still exist in Surrey Hills and their historical significance has been recognised by the City of Whitehorse by classifying the area the Windsor Park Heritage Precinct. 

Matthew was honorary secretary of the Council of the Law Institute of Victoria for five years and was a Justice of the Peace for the Central Bailiwick. He was ‘mayor’ of the City of Prahran from 1881 to 1882. He represented St Kilda in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1883 to 1889.

In 1885 Matthew Davies was a member of the Royal Commission on Transfer of Land and Titles to Land and, from 1886 to 1887, held a portfolio in the Gillies–Deakin Government as a minister without office.

In 1886 Matthew visited London to attend the Indian and Colonial Exhibition ‘and was presented at Court’ by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and enjoyed the hospitality of the Prince and Princess of Wales in connection with the exhibition’. While in London Mathew Davies set up the English & Australian Mortgage Bank Limited to raise capital. 

In 1887 Matthew Davies returned to Melbourne and sat on several committees of enquiry and was chairman of the Royal Commission on Banking. The primary recommendation of this enquiry was to allow all banks to participate in the buying and selling of land.

In 1890 Matthew’s contribution to public life was acknowledged with a knighthood.

In 1892 Matthews companies were caught in the property crash and his company’s suspended payments. Matthew Davies resigned from Parliament and travelled to London to try to arrange finance to rescue his business’s, but he was unsuccessful. He returned to Melbourne to face insolvency. 

The Freehold Investment Company Limited went into liquidation in 1893 amidst acrimony, public outrage and threats of criminal proceedings against the directors. 

In 1893 he was committed for trial on charges of conspiracy to defraud by means of a false balance sheet. The trial was delayed until May, at which point the charges were withdrawn. Matthew again travelled to London but, on the orders of the Attorney-general he was arrested in Colombo and brought back to Melbourne. After several trials, he was acquitted of the charges, but was declared bankrupt in 1894, with personal debts of £280,000 (equivalent to $50,453,333 as of 2021). The losses of his companies totaled over £4, 000,000 (equivalent to $720,761,904 as of 2021) — one of the largest corporate defaults in Australian history. 

Matthew Davies returned to his legal practice, and gradually restored his reputation through community service. His health deteriorated and he died at his home Marbernoulin Mentone in 1912.

Back to James Hall

In May 1911 James’s mother Eleanor died and in October of the same year the house and subdivision of 23 Lots was put up for sale, the house Tyneholm did not sell. On the land subdivision sales-flyer a street was shown called ‘James St’ after James Hall (to the east of Tyneholm), but the road was never built.

Between 1920 and 1925 James Hall founded the firm of James Hall and Sons Solicitors with his son’s Ronald Fox Hall and James Geoffrey Hall and the firm only ceased operating around 1965.

James was also involved in a number of social clubs including as President of the Williamstown Football Club from 1894 to 1902, President of the Victorian Football Association(V.F.A) from 1901 to 1903, President of the Williamstown Cricket Club 1904 to 1912, Commodore of the Hobson’s Bay Yacht Club and the Williamstown Bowling Club in 1903-04 and 1911-12.

Around 1902 James was elected as Vice President of the National Citizens Reform League. In his thesis ‘From Servants to Citizens: A History of Victorian Public Service Unionism 1885-1946’ Dustin Raffaele Halse mentions the following in regards to the National Citizens Reform League: 

‘In the Goulburn Valley town of Kyabram, a group of prominent residents met to discuss the evils of excessive State expenditure. Ostensibly, the National Citizens Reform League was organised by rural voters as a means to address metropolitan economic complacency. It contended that in the aftermath of federation, State governments would have fewer functions to perform and accordingly should be downsized. Its targets were public servants and politicians. The concerns were hardly novel. By 1902 the movement boasted a membership of 15,555 and had won the support of both the Age and the Argus’.

In 1904 James resigned from the National Citizens Reform League as he was running as a candidate for the seat of Williamstown in the Victorian State elections - he was not elected. In the same year James was elected to the executive committee of the Municipal Association of Victoria. 

James Hall died at the Hermannsburg Mission in the Northern Territory while on tour in 1930 and was buried with his parents in the Box Hill cemetery.

Another son - Robert Hall

He became a renowned Australian Ornithologist and was born in Lal Lal in Victoria in 1867. 

Robert was educated at Scotch College in Melbourne. After leaving school Robert started a business when he created the firm of Robert and Co - tea merchants (like his brother Henry did) and a cartage contractor business. 

In the 1895 Sands and McDougall directory Robert’s ‘private residence’ is listed as ‘Elgar Rd, Box Hill’. This was at the family home Tyneholm.

Robert’s real passion lay in ‘ornithology’ and in 1897 after being at the University of Melbourne he accompanied a Norwegian expedition to the Kerguelen Islands in the sub - Antarctic as a naturalist. 

In 1899 Robert made a bird-collecting trip to the Houtman Abrolhos Islands off the coast of Western Australia. 

In 1901 Robert was a foundation member of the (Royal) Australasian Ornithologists' Union.

In 1903 Robert embarked on his first major expedition outside of Australia with naturalist Richard E. Trebilcock to Siberia, via Japan and Korea. The expedition was organised to collect specimens and eggs of Siberian birds known to migrate to Australia in particular the Sharp Tailed Sandpiper which spent the summer in Werribee in Victoria. After reaching Vladivostok in May their first stop was Irkutsk on Lake Baikal. While they were in Vladivostok Robert was presented with a mounted Stag’s head trophy by the Governor.

They travelled by horse and cart and boat to the Lena River, and then travelled 3000 miles (4828 km) along the Lena River to its mouth reaching the delta in July 1903. They spent almost two months on the Lena River collecting specimens on an island in the mouth of the river. This was some 50 years before Russian ornithologist K.A. Vorobiev officially identified this area as a breeding ground for waders. During their time on the Lena River, they collected 90 species totaling 401 specimens - Robert shot the birds and Richard was the taxidermist and photographer. 

In December they returned to Australia, both Robert and Richard gave many lectures about their expedition. Reports of their journey appeared in Melbourne and Geelong newspapers and in ornithological publications.

After his return Robert became an influential advocate of nature studies being included in school curriculums: 'Nature is the true foundation of the finest education' he is quoted as saying.

Robert also authored a number of books including AKey to the Birds of Australia and Tasmania (1899) and Insectivorous Birds of Victoria (1900) - the latter a standard Victorian Department of Education issue to state schools; he and William Gillies wrote, Nature Studies in Australia (1903) – the introduction to this book was written by Frank Tate, resident of Box Hill and a leading Victorian education reformer (who is mentioned in this website on the page titled St Elmo). He also wrote Some useful Birds of Southern Australia(1907).

In 1908 Robert married Edith Giblin at St David’s Cathedral in Hobart; they did not have any children. 

Edith was the daughter of William Giblin. William was Premier of Tasmania, attorney general, treasurer and judge. In 1864 William founded the Hobart Working Men's Club, the first of its kind in Australia, and was its president until 1887. He was also a founder and teacher of the Congregational Sunday school and helped in forming a number of football teams.

Edith’s brother was Lyndhurst Giblin who from 1898 to 1904 travelled the world and unsuccessfully tried gold mining in northern British Columbia and during the Klondike gold rushes in north western Canada. 

In their book ‘Giblin’s Platoon -The trials and triumph of the economist in Australian public life’ by William Coleman, Selwyn Cornish and Alf Hagger they mention one of Williams experiences in Canada’s north accompanied by friend and fellow Australian Martin Grainger: 

‘The pair reached Canada on a cattle boat; ‘an experience which gives those who undergo it a fairly close acquaintance with many things not learned in books’. Once there Giblin did not find gold, and perhaps never much sought to. He did, however, seek to find survivors. In their search for wealth, many miners had been reduced to total destitution. The Canadian ‘North Country’ where they sought riches is cruel and relentless country. Devil’s Gorge, Hell’s Gate, Rapid of the Drowned: these are its features. Of the thousands who set out for the Klondike by the overland route beginning at Edmonton, only 20 per cent finished the journey. Not one of the 4000 horses they took with them did. And in winter the countryside was almost totally impassable. The sporadic supply trails of summer ceased. To survive was to kill whatever was still living: moose, wolf, porcupine, squirrel. And if you did not – by inexperience, exhaustion, or folly – you died. In early spring of 1899, in a tale worthy of King Croesus, gold miners along the banks of the Dease and Liard rivers were snowed in, trapped and starving. The government of British Columbia dispatched a rescue party, with Giblin second in command. Travelling by dog teams, the rescue party successfully negotiated frozen lakes, located the survivors and provided an ambulance for those too weak to walk. On the return journey, with Giblin now in command, their food supplies gave out. A moose hunt preserved them from death and disaster’.

In 1906 William Giblin returned to Tasmania and took up fruit growing and farming. Between 1913 and 1915 was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, but only held the seat for three years. 

In 1907 William was a member of Colonel W.V. Legge's survey party that explored the northern aspect of the Ben Lomond Mountain range. Consequently, Giblin Peak, a mountain in north eastern Tasmania, is named in honour of his father. 

In 1916 William joined the Australian Imperial Force and served in the 40th Infantry Battalion in France in the First World War/ He finished with the rank of Major having been awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross and was ‘mentioned in dispatches’. 

Between 1919 and 1928 he was the Government Statistician of Tasmania. 

In 1929 he was made Ritchie Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne and held that post until 1940, studying State and Federal financial relations, the concept of taxable capacity, and the measurement of tariff costs and their distribution. Giblin has been credited by some with being a precursor of Richard Kahn in the development of the concept of the multiplier. 

From 1922 and 1936 William was a member of the Commonwealth Grants Commission, 1935 and 1942 a director of the Commonwealth Bank and chairman of the Commonwealth Financial and Economic Committee from 1939 until 1946.

In 1937 William was made a Supernumerary Fellow by King's College, Cambridge and established in his memory a Giblin studentship which was open to an Australian graduate.

The Giblin Eunson library in the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Business and Economics building is also named after William.

Back to Robert Hall:

In 1908 Robert was appointed as curator of the Tasmanian Museum and Botanical Gardens but he resigned in 1912 after disagreeing with the museum trustees over the possible purchase of a number of Tasmanian Aboriginal skulls; he also resigned his position as Secretary of the Royal Society of Tasmania.

After resigning from his positions Robert became an orchardist at Bellerive, then at Cygnet and later at Sandy Bay. He remained always helpful to students and until the 1920s continued as a prolific contributor to nature journals.

In 1922 Robert Hall published the Australian Bird Maps. In an article titled Nature and Man that published in The Herald newspaper in 1927 mentions ‘Years ago a notable series of articles on the ‘’Birds of Box Hill” written by Mr Robert Hall another noted ornithologist was widely read’. 

Robert was a foundation member of the (Royal) Australasian Ornithologists' Union(1901) and president in 1913; he was also a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London (1903), a fellow of the Linnean Society (1903) and a colonial member of the British Ornithologists' Union (1908). 

Robert died in 1949 at New Norfolk in Tasmania. Parts of his private bird and egg collections are held at the Tasmanian Museum and the National Museum in Melbourne. 

While Robert was in Vladivostok in 1903, he was presented with a mounted Stag’s head trophy by the Governor. Two years before his death the Wellington Rover Crew Scouts had done some work for him around his property and refused payment but were given afternoon tea and a tour of his collections. During the tour a number of the Rovers stated that the Stag head trophy ‘would look good in the Rovers den’. It was Roberts wish that after his death that the Stag’s head trophy was to be given to the Wellington Rover Crew Scouts. The stag’s head was subsequently given by Robert’s wife Edith after his death to the Wellington Rovers and was placed on the wall of the Rovers Den in Macquarie St, Hobart. 

Youngest son - Isaac Jones Hall Jnr – solicitor 

Isaac Hall Jnr was born in Romsey, Victoria in 1872. 

In 1890 Isaac Jnr passed his matriculation examination for entry into Melbourne University as an ‘articled clerk’ to study law and in 1893 he completed his studies.

Isaac lived with his parents at Tyneholm from approximately 1894 and worked as a solicitor and barrister at the Prell Building at 60 Queen St in Melbourne.

In 1904 Isaac Hall Jnr, Milton Davey and Arthur Daly formed the law firm of Daly, Hall and Davey. The firm operated from the Nicholson’s Chambers in Swanston St in Melbourne. Isaac Jnr. also worked from his home at 120 Whitehorse Rd (on the corner of Court St and Whitehorse Rd - now 1031 Whitehorse Rd) in Box Hill. 

In 1911 Isaac Hall Jnr married Louisa Holland who was the daughter of John and Mary Ann Holland (nee Goodman). Isaac and Louisa had one child Robert. 

In 1912 Isaac and Louisa Hall are listed as living in Bank St in Box Hill and by 1914 they are listed as living on the corner of Court St and Whitehorse Rd in Box Hill. 

In October 1915 a notice in The Box Hill reporter newspaper mentioned ‘The partnership has been dissolved of the firm of Messrs. Daly, Hall and Davey, solicitors, and in future Mr. I. J. Hall, of Whitehorse road, Box Hill will continue his practices at Box Hill, and also at Albany Chambers, 230 Collins street, Melbourne’. 

In February 1918 Isaac Jnr was admitted to the Royal Park Insane Hospital. Later that month his brother James Hall placed advertisements in various newspapers around Melbourne stating ‘During Mr. Hall’s illness, Mr. JAMES HALL, Solicitor, of Queen Street, Melbourne, will attend to his Clients’. 

In March 1918 Louisa Hall operated the family home as a private hotel and named it Tyneholm after the Hall family home on Elgar Rd in Box Hill south. At the time Isaac was admitted to Royal Park Insane Hospital there was a £550 ($52,030 as of 2021) mortgage on the house that was held by William Morley, Thomas Bend and Thomas Lockwood. Louisa may have operated the house as a private hotel in order to pay off the mortgage and other bills. 

A little about the second Tyneholm 

Records show that the previous residents of the house was William and Maria Young (nee Gatter) who lived in the house from 1905 to 1914. William operated a coach building business on the site and later served as Nunawading Shire Councillor and then as Box Hill Councillor and Mayor from 1917 to 1938. In 1928 their daughter Doris Young married David Rodgerson who was a member of the locally prominent Box Hill family who built and lived at Upton House in Thames St in Box Hill.

In an interesting aside Maria Young’s father was George Gatter who opened the London Nursery in Box Hill. In Andrew Lemons book Box Hill mentions ‘George Gatter, who established a small nursery in 1859 on part of the Murphy estate had gained praise for superior strains of Rhubarb’. It may have been the first nursery to open in the Nunawading District and requires further investigation. The Gatter and later the Young family used to live at Gowanlea on the western side of the Dorking and Whitehorse Rd’s intersection in Box Hill. 

The single storey weatherboard house that Isacc Jnr and Louisa lived in appears to have been built in the Federation style and consisted of eight rooms. There was also a two-storey building on the northern side, a garage/stables in the north eastern corner and a driveway that ran from Whitehorse Rd to the garage/stables. 

Back to Louisa Hall (wife of Isaac Jnr)

In November 1918 Louisa placed an advertisement in the Camberwell and Hawthorn Advertiser ‘Wanted. – Capable, trustworthy MAN for a couple of days, help removal to another house. Mrs. I.J.Hall, ‘Tyneholm’, Box Hill. 

In December 1918 Isaac Jnr died at the Royal Park Insane Hospital, in his Will he appointed his wife Louisa as Executrix and left her his personal estate. It appears that Tyneholm hotel closed at the end of December 1918 as Louisa and her son Robert were now living at Pacific House on the Esplanade in St Kilda.

By 1920 the house had been sold to a Dr Robert Richards who ran a medical practice from the house until c1929. 

Around 1931 Dr Arthur Booth bought the house and also ran a medical practice from it until c1960, he sold the house which was subsequently demolished between 1960 and 1963 and a National Tyre Centre was built on the site (until the current shops were built in the 1980’s).

Edward Wilson and Tyneholm on Elgar Road.

Edward Wilson was unmarried, died in 1878 and in his Will he made twenty-six legacies of £100 a year to female friends in the colonies, but the bulk of his estate was used to form the Edward Wilson Trust. Since his death the Trust has distributed millions of dollars to Victorian charities, in particular to Hospitals including the Melbourne (later the Royal Melbourne Hospital), the Alfred, the Royal Women’s and Children's Hospitals, the Bush Nursing Hospital in Broadford and the Victorian Association of Braille Writers.  

In 1907 the Edward Wilson Trust donated £100,000 (equivalent to $16,800,000 as of 2022) for the rebuilding of the Queen Victoria Women’s Hospital.

Edward Wilson’s legacy

In 1927 the Edward Wilson Trust funded the construction of a new building at the Salvation Army’s Box Hill facility (on the site where Tyneholm is) and it was named ‘The Edward Wilson Trust Cottage’ - it became known as No 4 Home and was later demolished when the current Retirement Village was built - leaving Tyneholm still standing.

By 1928 the Edward Wilson Trust had distributed £1,000,000 (equivalent to $90,900,000 in 2022) to charities in Victoria. 

Current beneficiaries of the Edward Wilson Trust include Basscare, Club Respect, Hope Street Youth and Family Services and the Edward Wilson Trust Award for Most Outstanding Regional Journalist.

A bust of Edward Wilson by Thomas Woolner is in the State Library of Victoria. 

TYNEHOLM - THE HOUSE

The Architect

The City of Whitehorse Heritage Review: Building Citations uses Andrew C Ward & Associates City of Box Hill Heritage and Conservation Study 1990 as a source and states in regards to the architect of the house ‘It may have been designed by Frederick Smart, of distinguished architectural firm of Reed, Smart and Tappin’.

I was curious to confirm who was the designer/architect of Tyneholm as it was designed in the late Victorian Italianate style which was a design favoured around this time by renowned Melbourne architect John Beswicke. I found in The Argus newspaper for Sat 27 September 1890 an advertisement for Tenders to build a two-storey brick villa residence on Elgar Road, Surrey Hills placed by Beswicke and Coote, Architects. This is the only two storey brick villa building built on this part of Elgar Road at that time. I consulted the Professor of Architecture at Melbourne University Miles Lewis and he was in no doubt that the house was designed by John Beswicke in the Italianate style.