Next Meeting of the Toowong History Group

Thursday 7 May, 2009

Where : Historic Library, Toowong State School, via Kate Street Toowong MAP
When: 7.00pm

Our speaker is: Stephen Sheaffe from the Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Stephen is a Past President of the RHSQ and a former editor of their journal.
He is also a Trustee of Newstead House, Treasurer for the National Trust, and on the Board of the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary.
His talk will be on Samuel Ashmore, merchant seaman, whaler and hydrographer
after whom the Ashmore Reef and shoals on the Great Barrier Reef were named.