Alexandrina Who's Who
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Each month we have an opportunity to get together at:
- monthly meetings on the 2nd Monday at the Mittagong RSL (opposite Ironstone Café) Arrive at 10.15am. Order a coffee on your way in, listen to an engaging guest speaker and catch up on local news, recent activities and upcoming outings. You can than join other members for lunch after the meeting if you have the time.
- Craft days - 4th Friday of the month at Bargo Sports Club 10am
- Coffee and Chat - 4th Tuesday of the month at local cafes 10.30am
- Munch Club - 1st Monday at a variety of interesting venues across Wollondilly and Wingecarribee. 12pm
- Special Outings these are events that our members are interested in attending but would like to do so with friends. These outings vary, as an example we have recently attended a show at the Performing Art Centre in Picton, a Musical in Sydney and visited a Scottish Highland Cow Farm
Interested in finding out more? Were interested in meeting you!
Phone 0400824670, Email bargoprobusclub@gmail.com
or just turn up at a meeting on the first Monday of the month.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Alexandrina
Strathalbyn contributes several substantial historical connections to the Alexandrina district. These lives link the town with nineteenth-century settlement, medicine, scientific institutions and political reform.
🧭 Dr John Rankine
Dr John Rankine arrived in South Australia from Scotland in 1839 with his brothers and other emigrants. The family settled around what became Strathalbyn, helping establish the community whose colonial buildings remain a feature of the town. Rankine later bought land on Hindmarsh Island, stocked it with cattle and built a substantial house there. He retired from active work in 1855 and returned to Scotland, where he died in 1864. His district connections thus extend beyond a single town centre.
🔬 Sir Edward Charles Stirling
Edward Charles Stirling was born at The Lodge in Strathalbyn in 1848. After medical and scientific training in England, he helped establish the University of Adelaide's medical school and became its first professor of physiology. He also directed the South Australian Museum and took part in scientific expeditions. As a parliamentarian he proposed a women's suffrage motion in 1885. His career was unusually broad: medicine, museum collections and voting rights all made demands on the same working life.
