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, 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.
A. Simpson & Co., whitegoods manufacturer.
Read more about Alfred Allen Simpson: Family Tree, Alfred Simpson (1805-1891), Alfred Muller Simpson (1843-1917), Alfred Moxon Simpson
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“Flash’d from his bed the electric tidings came,
He is no better, he is much the same.”
—Anonymous.
Parody of the style of poet laureate Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
“Sailin’ ‘round the world in a dirty gondola
Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“The sun is shining.
The shadows of the lovers have disappeared.
They are all eyes; they have some demand on me—
They want me to be more serious than I want to be.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)