Robert Kyffin Thomas

Sir Robert Kyffin Thomas (19 ga Agusta 1851 - 13 Yuni 1910)  mallakin jaridar Kudancin Ostiraliya ne.

An haifi Sir Robert a Nailsworth, Kudancin Ostiraliya, ɗan William Kyffin Thomas, mamallakin South Australian Register.

Kakan Thomas, Robert Thomas, ya buga Jaridar South Australian Gazette da Colonial Register a Landan a shekarar 1829, da kuma Jaridar South Australian Register, jaridar South Australian ta farko, a shekarar 1839. Ya kuma buga Jaridar Government Gazette ta farko, amma ya rasa wannan kasuwancin lokacin da ya yi wa Gwamna Gawler rashin adalci.

Thomas ya yi karatu a Cibiyar Ilimi ta Adelaide ta Mr. JL Young, wacce ta yi zamani da Hon. CC Kingston. Ya fara aikin jarida yana da shekaru 18 kuma ba da daɗewa ba ya zama babban mai ba da rahoto. An amince da shi a matsayin abokin tarayya a kamfanin a shekarar 1877, kuma a lokacin mutuwarsa shi ne babban mai kamfanin The Register.

Thomas fitaccen memba ne a reshen Kudancin Ostiraliya na Royal Geographical Society,  Cibiyar Kasuwanci ta Adelaide da kuma Adelaide Glee Club kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban kowace ƙungiya. Ya kasance ma'ajin ƙungiyar tsoffin 'yan mulkin mallaka, mai himma a fannin Freemason kuma Justice of the Peace na tsawon shekaru 22.

A lokacin da yake Birtaniya a shekarar 1902, Thomas ya taimaka wajen kafa kwamitin da ya umarci Kyaftin Adrian Jones ya ƙirƙiri wurin tunawa da Yaƙin Afirka ta Kudu, wanda za a gani a kusurwar titin King William da North Terrace, Adelaide, a gaban Gidan Gwamnati. A wannan tafiyar ya sayi wasu zane-zane don Gidan Tarihi na Ƙasa na Kudancin Ostiraliya. 

An ba shi sarautar sarauta a watan Janairun 1909, ɗaya daga cikin na ƙarshe da Sarki Edward VII ya ba shi. Thomas ya mutu a ranar 13 ga Yunin 1910 a Ardington, Arewacin Adelaide, Kudancin Ostiraliya. 

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A shekara ta 1876 Thomas ya auri Amelia Bowen (kimanin 1855 - 15 ga Yuli 1922), 'yar Robert George Bowen, na Adelaide, [1] [2] a ranar 6 ga Janairu 1876. Gidansu na tsawon shekaru da yawa shine "Ardington", Brougham Place, North Adelaide. Daga cikin 'ya'yansu akwai:

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