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3 unusual facts about South Australian Register


South Australian Register

Anthony Forster became part owner in 1848; With the death of Stephens in 1850, his share was taken over by John Taylor.

On 1 January 1850, it became a daily publication, and three years later the paper was bought back by Thomas's son William Kyffin Thomas as part of South Australia's first media syndicate with Anthony Forster, Edward William Andrews and Joseph Fisher.

William Kyffin Thomas

Thomas was the son of Robert Thomas, was born in Fleet Street, London and emigrated to South Australia with his father in 1836, and from that time until the day of his death Thomas was intimately associated with the fortunes of the South Australian Register, for the last twenty-five years of his life as one of the proprietors.


Arthur Baker-Clack

He was a journalist the The Register before moving to the Perth Morning Herald covering the Western Australian goldfields.


see also

John Finlayson

John Harvey Finlayson (1843–1915), editor and part-owner of the South Australian Register