Alfred Allen Simpson

This article is about the South Australian family of manufacturers. For the (unrelated) British legal historian and author Alfred William Brian Simpson see A. W. B. Simpson.

Alfred Allen Simpson was Mayor of the City of Adelaide from 1913 to 1915.

The name Simpson Desert was coined in 1930 by Cecil Madigan,^[1] after Alfred Allen Simpson, an Australian philanthropist, geographer, and president of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia.

From 1919, lived at Undelcarra in Burnside.^[2]

A. Simpson & Co., whitegoods manufacturer.^[2]

References

^ Madigan, C.T. 1930. An aerial reconnaissance into the southeastern portion of central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch 30:83-108.
^ ^a ^b Undelcarra Road, Street names, City of Burnside

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Preceded by Sir John Lavington Bonython	Mayor of Adelaide 1913–1915	Succeeded by Isaac Isaacs

[1] Madigan, C.T. 1930. An aerial reconnaissance into the southeastern portion of central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch 30:83-108.

[Undelcarra-2] Undelcarra Road, Street names, City of Burnside

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