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Sir Henry Edward Fox Young ( 1808 – 1870 ) was the fifth Governor Of South Australia , serving in that role from 2 August 1848 until 20 December 1854 . He was then the first Governor Of Tasmania , from 1855 until 1861 . Under Young, South Australia received its first formal parliament. The South Australian Legislative Council consisted of 24 members - 16 elected, four officials and four appointed by the governor. The South Australian House Of Assembly comprised 36 members each elected from a different area. The town of Port Augusta is named after Henry's wife, Lady (Augusta) Young. It was Governor Young who offered a prize of £2000 in 1851 for the first person to travel up the Murray River to its junction with the Darling River (now the town of Wentworth ) in a Paddle Steamer . The prize was claimed in 1853 . Due to the difficulty of navigating the Murray Mouth , Young supported building the railway from the river port of Goolwa to the new sea port at Port Elliot (named after his friend, Charles Elliot ). Sir Henry Fox Young's term as Governor of Van Diemens Land was significant, because in 1856 the Island colony received self-government, and was re-named Tasmania to mark the fact and as a deliberate measure by free-settlers to distance its convict past. Sir Henry was the first Tasmanian Governor to occupy Government House, Hobart , the beautiful neo-gothic Vice-Regal residence on the banks of the River Derwent. EXTERNAL LINKS
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