Tom Elder Barr Smith

Thomas Elder Barr Smith (1863–1941) was a South Australian pastoralist and philanthropist, and the son of Robert Barr Smith.^[1]

In 1917 his estate was subdivided to form the Adelaide suburb of Torrens Park.

In 1928 he gave £30,000 to the University of Adelaide to enable the building of the Barr Smith Library.^[2]

His interests included competing in car rallies, and a steam locomotive was named after him in 1926.^[3]

There is a plaque in his honour on the Jubilee 150 Walkway.

Family

Father: Robert Barr Smith (1824–1915)^[4]
Mother: Joanna Elder - sister of Sir Thomas Elder
Uncles: Sir Thomas Elder (1818–1897),^[5] William Elder (1813–1882), Alexander Lang Elder (1815–1885) and George Elder (1816–1897)
Self: Tom Elder Barr Smith (1863–1941)^[6]
Daughter: Joanna Lang Barr Smith, Lady Gosse (1886–1965) married Sir James Hay Gosse (1876–1952)^[7] in 1907.
Son: Sir Tom Elder Barr Smith (1904–1968)^[8]

^ Serle, Percival (1949). "Barr Smith, Robert". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson. http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogSa-Sp.html#smith10.
^ Burn, Margy (1982), The Barr Smith Library: its early days, University of Adelaide Library, hdl:2440/15901 .
^ No.504 "TOM BARR-SMITH", National Railway Museum - 500B-class 4-8-4 steam locomotive - retrieved 1 Feb 2009.
^ van Dissel, Dirk (1976). 'Smith, Robert Barr (1824-1915)'. Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, Melbourne University Press, pp 153-154. Retrieved on 9 July 2009.
^ Gosse, Fayette (1972) 'Elder, Sir Thomas (1818-1897)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, pp 133-134. Retrieved on 9 July 2009.
^ Linn, R W (1988). 'Smith, Tom Elder Barr (1863-1941)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, Melbourne University Press, p. 664. Retrieved on 11 July 2009.
^ Gosse, Fayette (1996) 'Gosse, Sir James Hay (1876–1952)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, (MUP). Retrieved on 4 September 2011.
^ Shanahan, Martin. (2002).'Smith, Sir Tom Elder Barr (1904-1968)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, Melbourne University Press, pp 274-275. Retrieved on 11 July 2009.