Wellington Square, North Adelaide

Wellington Square is a public square in the Adelaide suburb of North Adelaide, South Australia, in the City of Adelaide. It is roughly at the centre of the largest of the three grids which comprise North Adelaide.

The square was named on 23 May 1837 after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish born field marshal and statesman, and victor at Waterloo, who is credited with securing the passage of the South Australia Foundation Act through the British House of Lords.[1] Colonel William Light, first Surveyor-General of South Australia and a member of the Street Naming Committee, had briefly served under Wellington as a junior staff officer.[2] Light's 1837 plan of Adelaide included Wellington Square.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "History of Adelaide Through Street Names". History of South Australia website. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
  2. ↑ "Light, William (1786–1839)". Australian Dictionary of Biography online. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
  3. ↑ Margaret Anderson (31 December 2013). "Light's Plan of Adelaide 1837". adelaidia.sa.gov.au. History SA. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
    The page contains a copy of one of the two surviving original plans drawn in 1837. Quote: "It is a watercolour and ink plan, drawn by 16-year-old draughtsman Robert George Thomas to instructions from Light. ... The streets were named by a Street Naming Committee that met on 23 May 1837, indicating that this plan must have been completed after that date."
    Copy of William Light's Plan of Adelaide, 1837, Held by the History Trust of South Australia, HT2001.166, adelaidia.sa.gov.au

Coordinates: 34°54′26″S 138°35′29″E / 34.9073°S 138.5915°E / -34.9073; 138.5915


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