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)
“Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“The man who married Magdalene
Had not forgiven her.
God might pardon every sin . . .
Love is no pardoner.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)