Tom Elder Barr Smith

Thomas Elder Barr Smith (8 December 1863 – 26 November 1941) was a South Australian pastoralist and philanthropist,
Smith was born in Woodville, South Australia, the son of Robert Barr Smith, and his wife Joanna Lang, née Elder.
On 5 May 1886 he married Mary Isabel Mitchell, at St. Andrew's Church, Walkerville.
In 1917 Smith's 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.
His interests included competing in car rallies. A steam locomotive was named after him in 1926.
There is a plaque in his honour on the Jubilee 150 Walkway.

• Father: Robert Barr Smith (1824–1915)
• Mother: Joanna Elder - sister of Sir Thomas Elder
• Uncles: Sir Thomas Elder (1818–1897), William Elder (1813–1882), Alexander Lang Elder (1815–1885) and George Elder (1816–1897)
• Daughter: Joanna Lang Barr Smith, Lady Gosse (1886–1965) married Sir James Hay Gosse (1876–1952) on 29 April 1908, at St.Andrew's, Walkerville, South Australia.
• Son: Sir Tom Elder Barr Smith (1904–1968)

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