Clipper Ship 'City of Adelaide'

Rev Canon Thomas Field contributed enormously to the Anglican Church in South Australia. He came to South Australia at the invitation of Hon G C Hawker, and was given the Mission Chaplaincy of the Broughton, a district of 1,400 Sq miles. He served as the Anglican Priest on the original Altona, up and down the River Murray. He served many parishes including 16 years at Glenelg, Prospect and Islington, Hindmarsh, was Chaplain at the Destitute Asylum, the Adelaide Gaol and lastly at the time of his death, the Mission Chaplaincy of St Cyprians. His particular passion was education and established schools at each of the parishes in which he served. He was appointed Hon. Canon of St Peter's Cathedral in 1896.