H. L. Vosz

Heinrich Ludwig Vosz (3 May 1812 – 9 March 1886), was born in Hanover in humble circumstances, and when quite young moved with his parents to Hamburg, where he had to work for a living from age 12. At 15 he was apprenticed to a carpenter and eventually was able to set up in business on his account.

He was doing well until the European revolutions of 1848, which destroyed his business, leaving him bankrupt. He emigrated to South Australia aboard Alfred with his wife and two young sons arriving in December 1848. He started work as a joiner in Ackland Street (now that part of Frome Street between Grenfell and Wakefield streets) and was naturalized in August 1849.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158927931 |title=Advertising |newspaper=The Adelaide Observer |location=South Australia |date=18 August 1849 |access-date=2 January 2020 |page=2 |via=Trove }}

In 1848 he was selling furniture and in 1849 had a timber yard in partnership with C. E. Berthau.

Then came the discovery of gold in Victoria, and in 1851 he joined the rush to the diggings.

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He returned with enough money to set up in business as painter, glazier and paperhanger, and in 1853 opened a retail store at 82 (renumbered c. 1890 as 88) Rundle Street, selling window glass, paints, and wallpaper.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207014585 |title=Advertising |newspaper=Adelaide Times |location=South Australia |date=25 March 1854 |access-date=3 January 2020 |page=1 |via=Trove }} The business prospered and he was able to repay, with interest, his creditors back in Germany. The Hamburg Reform of February 1860 published an article noting his integrity, entitled Ein braver Mann.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197812056 |title=Latest News |newspaper=The Evening Journal (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=10 March 1886 |access-date=2 January 2020 |page=2 |via=Trove }}

Vosz maintained an active interest in current events but apart from a few years (1860–1862) as City Councillor, played no active part in public affairs.

He died after several years of intense suffering from neuralgia, which no medical treatment could alleviate,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208432400 |title=General News |newspaper=The Express and Telegraph |location=South Australia |date=10 March 1886 |access-date=2 January 2020 |page=4 |via=Trove }} and was buried at the West Terrace Cemetery without ostentation, by Rev. J. Crawford Woods.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36324345 |title=Thursday March 11 |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |location=South Australia |date=11 March 1886 |access-date=27 January 2020 |page=5 |via=Trove }}

His business had become the largest of its kind in Australia; his wife and sons had predeceased him{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50183218 |title=Death of Mr. H. L. Vosz |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=South Australia |date=10 March 1886 |access-date=2 January 2020 |page=5 |via=Trove }} and much of his considerable fortune was left to local charities, including £2,000 for the Home for Incurables.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207769423 |title=Home for Incurables |newspaper=The Express and Telegraph |location=South Australia |date=30 June 1888 |access-date=2 January 2020 |page=3 |via=Trove }}

Other charities to benefit were The Orphan Home, the Royal Institution for the Blind, the Fund of Benevolence of the Grand

Lodge of Freemasons of South Australia, the Benevolent Fund of the Irish Constitution of Freemasons of South Australia, the Adelaide Children's Hospital, and the Cottage Homes.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41324769 |title=The Vosz Estate |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=13 August 1927 |access-date=2 January 2020 |page=13 |via=Trove }}

• Vosz established a summer residence, dubbed "Magpie Castle" overlooking the town of Lobethal. After an outbreak of phylloxera, which ruined their vineyards, Vosz and Henry Schmidt established a glue works and tannery in the town.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90952203 |title=Towns, People and Things We Ought to Know |newspaper=The Chronicle (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=12 October 1933 |access-date=3 January 2020 |page=46 |via=Trove }} These anecdotes have not yet been corroborated or dated.
• He was a director of Provincial Gas Company of South Australia

Vosz was married to Friederike Dorothea Sophie Vosz, possibly née Hoerber{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159506088 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |location=South Australia |date=20 October 1866 |access-date=27 January 2020 |page=2 |via=Trove }} Emilie Hoerber (married Vosz employee) Hermann Böcker on 19 October 1866 ( – 3 June 1875); they had two sons, both born in Germany:

• Wilhelm Hartwig Eduard Vosz (c. 1840 – 9 August 1883) lawyers were still debating his will 43 years later.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73639830 |title=An Involved Will |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=28 September 1926 |access-date=2 January 2020 |page=7 |via=Trove }}
• Adolph Friedrich Emil Vosz (c. 1842 – 14 March 1868)

By Vosz's will, ownership of the business passed to his employees who, through their trustees, sold the business to Johann Heinrich Nicholaus "Henry" Schmidt and Theodore J. C. Hantke (1835–1912),{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87878918 |title=Personal. |newspaper=The Chronicle (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=30 April 1904 |access-date=5 January 2020 |page=28 |via=Trove }}{{cite web|url=https://archival.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/brg/BRG172_Clarkson_serieslist.pdf| title=Clarkson Ltd BRG 172 |publisher=State Library of South Australia}} both of whom previously held executive positions in the company.

Schmidt became insolvent in 1894 as a result of his purchase of a large share of the company and inability to realise on property which had lost value.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73202988 |title=Insolvency Court |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=25 April 1894 |access-date=4 January 2020 |page=3 |via=Trove }} He retired from the partnership and sold his share to businessman Alfred Wilkinson (1863–1922).{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63701147 |title=Concerning People |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=24 January 1922 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=6 |via=Trove }}

In 1904, when the business was registered as a Company, he stepped down as manager to take a position on the board of directors.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163086331 |title=Obituary |newspaper=The Observer (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=16 November 1912 |access-date=5 January 2020 |page=41 |via=Trove }} A. E. Clarkson, who joined the company in 1890, was elected manager and secretary.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128944577 |title=Business Expansion |newspaper=The News (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=1 December 1932 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=14 |via=Trove }}

In 1899 a leadlight and stained glass department was added, which by the 1920s employed 26 staff and two artist/designers.{{cite web|url=https://adelaidecityexplorer.com.au/items/show/200?tour=30&index=3|title=South Australia's Glass Merchant: Clarkson Limited |publisher=Adelaide City Explorer|author=Natalie Carfora |access-date=1 January 2020}} Adelaide's churches were the high-profile end of the market, but much of their business would have been in advertising windows and mirrors for hotels, and decorative windows and panels for more affluent home-owners.

By 1900 the business owned the area bounded by Rundle Street, Charles Street and Fisher Place, as well as stables and yards on Gilles Street, and also occupied several warehouse on Maclaren Wharf, Port Adelaide. Paints and calcimines, were manufactured at Rundle Street, mirrors were silvered and bevelled, stained glass painted and fired by J. F. Williams and his staff, leadlight windows built up, and plate glass cut and curved. Besides glass of every description, the showroom had a range of gas and electric lighting and heating fittings on display.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54453195 |title=An Expanding Business |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=South Australia |date=6 August 1900 |access-date=5 January 2020 |page=3 |via=Trove }}

The company became H. L. Vosz Ltd in 1901. In 1904 the firm was incorporated with a nominal capital of £50,000.

One of the company's first decisions was to divest itself of its building and contracting work, and concentrate on retail. Many of the workers and apprentices who lost their jobs prospered as independent contractors.

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Around January 1907 manufacture of paints was transferred to purpose-built facilities at Lipson Street, Port Adelaide, and much new equipment brought in.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164116411 |title=H. L. Vosz Limited |newspaper=The Observer (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=19 September 1908 |access-date=2 January 2020 |page=34 |via=Trove }}

Even so, their Rundle Street showrooms, office and glass workshops were seriously overcrowded, and in July 1908 a new building was opened at 124–126 Rundle Street, alongside the Plough and Harrow Hotel (twenty years later demolished and replaced with the Richmond Hotel) and almost directly opposite the Adelaide Arcade.

The shop boasted all the latest decorative styles and innovations in display and efficiency, such as the Lamson cash carriers, and a network of telephones connecting the various offices and workshops.

A wide stairway led to the first floor, where displays of lighting and lavatory fittings, leaded lights, stained glass, and other window styles were shown to best effect against the large southern window.

Around the walls were displayed church windows and racks with thousands of sample rolls of wallpaper.

The basement carried a large stock of plumbers' requirements.

Another city block was purchased to house the mirror surfacing and bevelling factory, glass store and cutting workshop.

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The name of the company was changed to "Clarkson Limited" at an extraordinary general meeting in August 1915,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5476621 |title=Advertising |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=5 August 1915 |access-date=3 January 2020 |page=2 |via=Trove }} at a time of heightened antipathy to Germanic names.

Albert Ernest Clarkson (10 April 1876 – 26 April 1936){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35427061 |title=Death of Mr A. E. Clarkson |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=27 April 1936 |access-date=3 January 2020 |page=15 |via=Trove }} was a majority shareholder in the company and its first manager and secretary.

He led the company for some 40 years.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129266846 |title=Fine Service to State |newspaper=The News (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=27 April 1936 |access-date=3 January 2020 |page=7 |via=Trove }}

In 1912 the Australasian United Paint Company, Limited. was formed with an office in Lipson Street, Port Adelaide and capital £100,000 to take over the paint business of H. L. Vosz Ltd. as a going concern. Its first directors were George Henry Prosser, Albert Ernest Clarkson, James Montague Sandy, Robert Cochrane, and Robert S. Exton.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58185472 |title=Company Registrations |newspaper=The Mail (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=18 May 1912 |access-date=5 January 2020 |page=4 |via=Trove }}

In December 1932, Clarkson's remodelled the Kithers Buildings at 135–139 Rundle Street, leaving the facade, and this became the new Clarkson's showrooms.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128944577 |title=Business Expansion |newspaper=The News (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=1 December 1932 |access-date=5 January 2020 |page=14 |via=Trove }}

In 1908 the company had purchased property on the north side of Grenfell Street (146–156) alongside the Hotel Grenfell (later Boar's Head) east of Hindmarsh Square, where they later established a Bulk Store, Trade Depot,{{cite web|url=https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+13894 |title=Clarkson Ltd., Grenfell Street |publisher=State Library of South Australia |access-date=13 February 2020}} photograph of LHS of establishment and offices.{{cite web|url=https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+13895 |title=Clarkson Ltd., Grenfell Street |publisher=State Library of South Australia |access-date=13 February 2020}} photograph of RHS of establishment

In 1958 their Head Office was relocated to 150 Grenfell Street, and featured a {{convert|90|ft|m}} window.

The company moved out of plumbing and much of the retail market and in 1958 sold the Rundle Street building to the Commonwealth Bank.

• James Ferguson Williams (1877–1959), joined the company in 1899{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63824068 |title=Clarkson, Limited. 75th Anniversary |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=20 January 1923 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=13 |via=Trove }} and was a director 1922–1948{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43756482 |title=Centenary Year For Clarkson Ltd. |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=17 February 1948 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=4 |via=Trove }} or later. He was a son of Edward and Marion Williams (née Ferguson).
• Alfred James Quarrell (1876–1940), was with the company c. 1914–1918{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54270062 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=31 May 1927 |access-date=5 January 2020 |page=9 |via=Trove }}
• Nora Burden was a glass artist with Clarkson Ltd. in the 1930s.

• Side windows of the council chamber, Adelaide Town Hall, donated by A. M. Simpson. The centre window is attributed to E. F. Troy (see below).{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4870547 |title=The City Council |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=19 August 1902 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=6 |via=Trove }}
• Church of the Good Shepherd, Bowden, window facing Drayton Street, dedicated to a soldier killed in South Africa.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4931817 |title=In Memory of the Fallen Brave |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=19 March 1903 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=6 |via=Trove }}
• Porch windows, Presbyterian Church, Mount Gambier{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55431321 |title=A Painful Accident |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=13 June 1903 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=4 |via=Trove }}
• Memorial to Mercy Jeffries, wife of Rev. W. H. Jeffries,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213574715 |title=Memorial Window |newspaper=Australian Christian Commonwealth |volume=XVI |issue=794 |location=South Australia |date=14 August 1903 |access-date=20 July 2024 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}} in the Kent Town Methodist church{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208758795 |title=Church Intelligence |newspaper=The Express and Telegraph |location=South Australia |date=17 August 1903 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=4 |via=Trove }} and the Lathlean window in the same church, artist J. F. Williams.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59132725 |title=A Stained-Glass Window |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |volume=LXXV |issue=19,941 |location=South Australia |date=10 October 1910 |accessdate=8 January 2021 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• The oriel windows on the north of the School of Mines and Industries building opened in 1903 on the Frome Road corner of North Terrace, depicting (apart from various armorial devices and emblems) British scientists and engineers Watt, Newton, Stephenson, Bessemer, Kelvin, Faraday, Wren and Dalton.{{cite web |url=https://adelaidecityexplorer.com.au/items/show/204 |author=Natalie Carfora |title=The School of Mines and Industry: Stained glass windows |publisher=Adelaide City Explorer |access-date=1 January 2020}} The windows at the south end of the great Brookman Hall on the first floor of the building were also products of the firm, all from designs by J. F. Williams.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article212154685 |title=Decorative Window Art at the new S.A. School of Mines. |newspaper=The Critic (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=7 March 1903 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=8 |via=Trove }}
• Windows in the porch of the Keyneton Congregational church, donated by Mrs H. Angas Evans, in memory of their son, H. Lindsay Evans
• A window in St. Columba's Church, Hawthorn, depicting the death of Lazarus{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4977616 |title=A beautiful Window |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=11 June 1904 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=8 |via=Trove }}
• Colton memorial window in Pirie Street Methodist church depicting Moses at the foot of Mt Sinai and Dorcas feeding the poor{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208782361 |title=Colton Memorial Window |newspaper=The Express and Telegraph |location=South Australia |date=25 September 1905 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=4 |via=Trove }}
• Twelve windows around The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Port Adelaide, and one in the porch relevant to the Carmelite Order.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166968459 |title=New Window for the Port Adelaide Church |newspaper=The Southern Cross (South Australia) |location=South Australia |date=31 August 1906 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=11 |via=Trove }}
• All Saints' Church, Hindmarsh, unveiled by Archdeacon Dove.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5111202 |title=General News |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=5 November 1906 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=10 |via=Trove }}
• Window for the Mount Pleasant Presbyterian church was delayed due to a shortage of artists.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56483532 |title=Mount Pleasant |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=14 November 1907 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=5 |via=Trove }}
• Three-light window for St Alban's Church, Gladstone, the work of J. F. Williams{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5191431 |title=A Handsome Memorial Window |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=8 October 1908 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=8 |via=Trove }}
• Lloyd memorial window, Archer Street Wesleyan church, North Adelaide{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213589781 |title=Notes on Current Events |newspaper=Australian Christian Commonwealth |location=South Australia |date=20 November 1908 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=9 |via=Trove }}
• A window for St Raphael's (Catholic) Church, Parkside depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5754919 |title=Church Intelligence |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=21 August 1909 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=11 |via=Trove }} This order was followed by a pair of windows depicting St Patrick and St Brigid{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5257797 |title=Church Intelligence |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=20 March 1911 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=12 |via=Trove }} Another two, depicting archangels Raphael and Gabriel followed a few years later.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5389897 |title=Church Intelligence |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=3 April 1913 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=14 |via=Trove }}
• Four windows in Methodist Ladies' College, Wayville representing "Literature", "Art", "Poetry", and "Music"{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5762533 |title=Methodist Ladies' College |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=27 October 1909 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=8 |via=Trove }}
• The Nativity and The Crucifixion at All Saints' Anglican Church, Hindmarsh, 1909, memorializing Canon Pollitt and Andrew Guthrie, a long-serving Sunday-school teacher.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5762923 |title=General News |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=30 October 1909 |access-date=5 January 2020 |page=11 |via=Trove }} The source of the centrepiece, The Ascension has not yet been found.
• Caldwell memorial windows in the Presbyterian Church, Mount Gambier, depicting "Light of the World" and "The Good Shepherd".{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77471938 |title=Memorial Window |newspaper=The Border Watch |location=South Australia |date=9 July 1910 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=2 |via=Trove }}
• Lathlean memorial window for the Kent Town Methodist Church{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59132725 |title=A Stained-Glass Window |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=10 October 1910 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=3 |via=Trove }}
• Wellington memorial window for the Bordertown Methodist church{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213590382 |title=The President at Boordertown |newspaper=Australian Christian Commonwealth |location=South Australia |date=17 February 1911 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=10 |via=Trove }}
• Heath memorial window for the North Rhine Congregational Church, Keyneton, depicting "Jesus and the children"{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58445738 |title=Keyneton |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=5 August 1911 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=15 |via=Trove }}
• Smyth memorial window, Christ Church, Strathalbyn, a figure representing "Faith"{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5317088 |title=Strathalbyn |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=20 December 1911 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=13 |via=Trove }}
• Caw memorial window, St Mary's church, Kooringa, an interpretation of Holman Hunt's Light of the World{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37494271 |title=The Burra Record. |newspaper=The Burra Record |location=South Australia |date=4 June 1913 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=2 |via=Trove }}
• Memorial windows to Father Bannon and Donald MacLean for St Laurence's (Catholic) church, Buxton-street, North Adelaide consisting of three two-light tracery windows, each {{convert|12|ft|m}} high, depicting saints of the Dominican Order, possibly their most ambitious project to that date.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5340844 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=5 October 1912 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=18 |via=Trove }}

Two windows in the nave of St Peter's Cathedral were installed by the Vosz company, but were from the London firm of Charles Eamer Kempe. One memorializes Dean Marryat and the other, contributed by the children of the church, is a representation of St Hilda.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5225833 |title=Generall News |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=26 January 1910 |access-date=5 January 2020 |page=6 |via=Trove }}

• William Montgomery (2 November 1850 – 5 July 1927) was a stained-glass artist who had worked for Clayton & Bell and for eight years worked as a stained-glass designer in Munich.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140798526 |title=The Studio |newspaper=The Australasian |location=Victoria, Australia |date=9 July 1927 |access-date=28 January 2020 |page=46 |via=Trove }} In 1887 he arrived in Melbourne, where he established a successful workshop at 164 Flinders Street. In 1892 his associate Herbert Grimbly arrived in Adelaide to set up a branch office, styled Montgomery & Grimbly, in Peel Street,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48535049 |title=The Commercial Outlook |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=South Australia |date=6 September 1892 |access-date=6 January 2020 |page=4 |via=Trove }} moving the following year to 20 Waymouth Street, later to Genders Buildings, Grenfell Street. They predate the Vosz company's stained-glass studio by a few years, but ceased production around 1905, closed in 1910. Their work included windows for:

:*St Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Wakefield Street, depicting St Patrick and St Laurence and presented by Archbishop Reynolds to honor Bishop Geoghegan and Bishop Laurence Shiel.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48535049 |title=The Commercial Outlook |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=South Australia |date=6 September 1892 |access-date=28 January 2020 |page=5 |via=Trove }}

:*South Australian Museum{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25349161 |title=The Advertiser |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=10 February 1893 |access-date=28 January 2020 |page=4 |via=Trove }}

:*Our Lady's Chapel, Dominican Priory in Molesworth Street, North Adelaide, depicting the Annunciation, 1893.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208448764 |title=Church Intelligence |newspaper=The Express and Telegraph |location=South Australia |date=17 May 1893 |access-date=28 January 2020 |page=4 |via=Trove }}

:*South Australian Hotel, 1894{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article145859860 |title=The South Australian Hotel |newspaper=Table Talk |location=Victoria, Australia |date=22 September 1894 |access-date=28 January 2020 |page=20 |via=Trove }}

:*St Peter's Cathedral

:*St Thomas's, Port Lincoln

:*St John's, Salisbury

:*East window, St Paul's church, Pulteney Street

:*North transept, Christ Church, North Adelaide

:*Memorial window to Bishop Short in St Peter's College chapel

• E. F. Troy (c. 1855–1910) painter and decorator of 67 Flinders Street and Gawler Place, a Catholic layman remembered as a founder of St. Vincent de Paul in Adelaide.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article167019112 |title=Obituary |newspaper=The Southern Cross (South Australia) |location=South Australia |date=15 April 1910 |access-date=6 January 2020 |page=9 |via=Trove }} produced much of the art glass found in the villas of affluent Adelaide in the 1890s and early 20th century. He had a very small staff and is believed to have engaged artists to fulfil contracts as they arose.

:One such, a Scotsman named R. Elliott{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56599364 |title=Adorning the School of Mines |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=1 November 1902 |access-date=27 January 2020 |page=6 |via=Trove }} designed the northern windows for the School of Mines' Brookman Hall. Dubbed the Empire Window and featuring Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, they were installed in 1902.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4928117 |title=School of Mines |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=24 February 1903 |access-date=27 January 2020 |page=6 |via=Trove }} a thorough description and early history. He was also responsible for the Coronation Window in the council chamber, Adelaide Town Hall, presented by A. M. Simpson.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4917859 |title=The Coronation Window |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=23 January 1903 |access-date=27 January 2020 |page=6 |via=Trove }}

:His foremost artist was Herbert Moesbury Smyrk (1862–1947), born in Guildford, Surrey,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166456866 |title=The Last Moment |newspaper=Quiz and The Lantern |location=South Australia |date=31 December 1896 |access-date=6 January 2020 |page=5 |via=Trove }} and emigrated to Melbourne, where he entered into a partnership with one Charles Rogers as Smyrk & Rogers, stained glass artists, dissolved in September 1888.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6902305 |title=Advertising |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |location=Victoria, Australia |date=21 September 1888 |access-date=6 January 2020 |page=5 |via=Trove }} No more heard of Rogers after a disastrous fire in 1896 Smyrk then moved to Adelaide, where he was active in the Adelaide Easel Club and responsible for some of Adelaide's finest locally-produced glass art. Smyrk left for London around March 1898,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199926480 |title=Adelaide Easel Club |newspaper=The Evening Journal (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=22 February 1898 |access-date=6 January 2020 |page=3 |via=Trove }} but a year later his imminent return to Australia was reported.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54424245 |title=Art Notes |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=South Australia |date=8 March 1899 |access-date=6 January 2020 |page=7 |via=Trove }} He was a world traveller with a special fondness for Tahiti. In later years he used "Herbert Moesbury" as his full name.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129752919 |title=Man of Many Parts |newspaper=The News (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=3 November 1925 |access-date=7 January 2020 |page=8 |via=Trove }} His known works include:

:*Two windows for St Ignatius' church in Norwood,

:*The west windows in the Congregational Church at Keyneton, in memory of Henry Evans and Mrs. S. Lindsay Evans, donated by her brother J. H. Angas, were attributed to Troy, while those in the porch came from the Vosz studio.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56492808 |title=Angaston |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=21 March 1904 |access-date=9 January 2020 |page=3 |via=Trove }}

:*Fruits of the Earth for the original St Augustine's Church, Unley.

:*The east window for St George's (Anglican) church in Gawler.

:The swimmer and Olympic high-diver Harold Nelson Smyrk was his son.

• Charles Edward Tute (1858 – 4 November 1927), a student of Charles Eamer Kempe, was in Australia 1906–1927, of which less than ten years, perhaps as little as three,{{cite book|title=150 Years of Stained & Painted Glass|author=P. F. Donovan |publisher=Wakefield Press |year=1986 |isbn=0949268801}} was spent in Adelaide, with a studio in Waymouth Street, where his devotional works include:

:*windows for the Church of St George in Goodwood, unveiled April 1909

:*window in the northern wall of St Paul's Church, Pulteney Street, Adelaide in memory of (Blanche) Ada Bonython (1881–1908), unveiled July 1909

:*window in St Columba's church, Hawthorn in memory of Mrs O'Brien, unveiled July 1911

:*window in the Church of England at Jamestown, unveiled July 1914

::He also designed Christmas cards and a reredos for the Church of St Augustine in Unley. He died in Brisbane.

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