Summary

Founder of Elder Stirling and Co.

Related entries

Published resources

Books

• Elder, Smith & Co. Limited: the first hundred years, Adelaide Advertiser, Adelaide, 1940, 82 pp. Details
• Douglas Pike (General Editor), Australian Dictionary of Biography : 1851-1890, D-J, vol. 4 of 16, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, 1972, 494 pp. Details
• Elder, T., Notes from a pocket journal of a trip up the River Murray in 1856, W.K. Thomas & Co, Adelaide, 1893, 18 pp. Details
• Findlay, W.S., The Mutooroo Pastoral Company Limited: after fifty years, Mutooroo Pastoral Co, Adelaide, South Australia, 1951, 57 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Cockburn, R., 'Sir Thomas Elder, G.C.M.G.', in Pastoral pioneers of South Australia, vol. 1, Publishers Ltd, Adelaide, 1925, pp. 26-27. Details
• Linn, Rob, 'Sir Thomas Elder', in Appleyard, R.T. and Schedvin, C.B. (eds), Australian Financiers. Biographical Essays, Macmillan Company of Australia, South Melbourne, Victoria, 1988, pp. 88-107. Details
• Pascoe, J.J., 'The late Sir Thomas Elder, G.C.M.G.', in History of Adeliade and vicinity with a general sketch of the province of South Australia and biographies of representative men., Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide, 1901, pp. 282-285. Details

Journal Articles

• Gosse, F, 'Sir Thomas Elder, G.C.M.G.', Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch. Proceedings, no. 63, 1962, pp. 33-50. Details

Online Resources

• 'Elder, Thomas (1818 - 1897)', in Bright Sparcs. A register of people involved in the development of science, technology, engineering and medicine in Australia, including references to their archival materials and bibliographic resources., 1994, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P003514b.htm. Details