Cawthorne was a dynamic music seller and concert manager, and is remembered as a genial raconteur.

Joachim Wendt was a Danish-born silversmith whose work included extravagant naturalism, Edwardian style, and restrained Regency taste.

A union official and social reformer who was not a socialist, John McPherson became the first leader of South Australia's Parliamentary Labor Party 

Mahomet Allum was described in glowing testimonials as 'the wonder man' and by his adversaries as a 'quack'.