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Henry Llewelyn Roberts
born
died 10 February 1919 (Hobart)
married Mary Grant Lindsay
mother 
Judith Harward (Roberts) born England died Aug 1857
​father John Llewelyn Roberts 
children
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Mary Roberts (Lloyd)
Alice Harward Roberts
Ida Roberts
Henry Llewelyn Roberts, died aged 18 in Melbourne (Typhoid)
Infant Roberts
Infant Roberts
William Arthur Roberts - Solicitor
Gerald Alleyne Roberts (1877-1961)

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Photograph - Mr H. T. Roberts, Tasmanian Exhibition, 1894-5, Season Ticket Holder - Beaumaris
DEATH OF MR. H. L. ROBERTS.
Mr Henry Llewelyn Roberts, of the well-known firm of Roberts and Co Ltd , passed away yesterday afternoon at his residence, Beaumaris, Battery Point at the age of 88. The deceased was the son of the late John Roberts, who was present at the battle of Waterloo in 1815, being employed in the commissariat department. Eight years later he came to Hobart with his wife and family, and was chief clerk in the commissariat department here. His youngest son who died yesterday, was born in 1831, in Liverpool street, in a house which is still standing opposite the General Hospital. Going in for a commercial life, deceased in 1864 was engaged as accountant with the firm of Brent and Westbrook, auctioneers, but leaving that firm the same year, he and the late Mr. G. A. Kemp,  with the late Mr. W. J. Abbott, founded the firm of Kemp, Roberts, and Abbott. The following year Mr. Kemp left the business and in 1870 Mr. H. R. Brent, New Town road, who is still a director, having been a member of the firm for 48 years, joined as a partner, the business being carried on by these three gentlemen under the name of Roberts and Co., until the firm was sold out to Roberts and Co. Ltd. in 1888, deceased being managing director until 1911, and a director up to the time of his death. He had unfailing good health up to a few weeks ago. Being of a retiring disposition, he took no part in public life, most of his activities being of a private nature.
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The Turkish Bath in Harrington-street owes its inception to the deceased, who was the recipient of presentation plate given to him in connection with the opening. He was greatly devoted to music, and took deep interest in the
work of the old Orchestral Union. He leaves a widow, two sons (both of whom are in the business), and two daughters, one of whom is a widow residing in New South Wales.

will - ​https://stors.tas.gov.au/862072#
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World (Hobart) Sat 1 Mar 1919
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HOBART HORTICULTURAL SHOW. The Mercury Hobart, Thu 20 Nov 1890 Page 3
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https://stors.tas.gov.au/NS1013-1-1526

OFFICIAL NOTICES. 25 July 1866
(From Yesterday's Gazette.)
An auctioneer's license has been issued to
Henry. L Roberts, of Hobart Town​
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Kennerlley, Alfred, Roberts, Henry Llewellyn and Hunter, Henry 2011 , Hobart Town Turkish Bath Co. Ltd. Index: Royal Society Collection , Royal Society of Tasmania, University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection, Australia.


​THE NEW TURKISH BATH. 14 Sept 1868
​trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8854509/779063
The Turkish Bath Company have now completed
their establishment at the corner of
Collins and Harrington-streets, and on Wednesday
the bath is to be open to the public, under
conditions contained in the advertisement which
will be found in another column. The manner
in which the building has been designed and
finished reflects the highest credit upon all concerned ;
every arrangement is perfect, and a
more luxurious bathing establishment does not
exist, we feel assured, in any of the colonies.
The exterior of the building presents no very
remarkable feature ; economy was a condition
forced upon the directors, and for that reason
money was not expended upon architectural
adornment. The building is of plain red brick
with dressed quoins, the walls being relieved
merely by the small windows by which the
interior is lighted, and which, to secure privacy
are at a height of about ten feet from the ground.
The apartments consist of an entrance hall, pay
office, frigidarium, or lounging room, dressing
rooms, bath room, and calidarium, or hot-air
room. Entering by the main door, the visitor
finds himself in the hall, which is covered with
oil cloth, and contains a rack of large-sized
pigeon holes or boxes, numbered, which are designed
to receive the boots of the bathers. The
window of the pay office opens upon this apartment,
and a clerk will receive the bathing fee,
and also take charge of any valuables which the
visitor may wish to deposit while engaged in the
bath. Drawing aside a green curtain, the visitor
enters the lounging room, a large handsome
apartment furnished, not in a style of oriental
splendour, but with simple European taste. The
floor is covered with a rich Brussels carpet, and
arranged around the room are six mechanical
lounges upholstered in green leather. These are
constructed somewhat upon the principle of invalid
lounges, and can be fixed so as to enable
the bather to recline in any posture. Beside
each lounge stands a neat circular table.
There are besides a number of comfortable
American lounging chairs. In the centre of the
apartment is a large table with a pair of cheval
glasses and other conveniences of the toilette.
Surrounding the room and opening upon it are
a dozen of dressing apartments or boxes, curtained
with green damask, each containing a seat and
hooks for hanging up articles of dress. In these
the bather will unrobe, and attired in a light
wrapper pass into the bathing room where the
process of the bath will be commenced. He will
then enter the calidarium, and this is the principal
feature of the bath. The calidarium consists of
two apartments, in the smaller of which is the
hot air furnace. This is a large square iron box,
so constructed within as to cause the air to pass
through a number of tubes and to become
thoroughly heated. It then passes from
the furnace, through a large main, running
along the ceiling of the apartment, and escapes
through a smaller pipe, the end of which is open
passing through the room, and being again drawn
back to feed the fire of the furnace, and to repeat
its circuit. By this contrivance the most perfect
ventilation is secured, and a constant current of
hot air is kept moving through the apartment.
The floor is of Roman cement, and flush with the
lower portion of the furnace, so that no crevice
exists for the accumulation of foul air. Around the
room plain deal benches are arranged, and on these
the bather may sit or recline, until the skin has
become thoroughly active. The temperature
of the larger apartment is to be maintained at
about 130 degrees, that of the smaller will range
to 180 degrees. Having had enough of the
heating room the bather returns to the bathing
room, where he will be laid upon a table and
dealt with by the shampooer. After this process
he will step into the rain bath, a very luxurious
contrivance, and the most attractive feature of
the whole process. The rain bath is a circular
box surrounded with hoops of piping ranging
from the top to the bottom, and all minutely perforated.
To this both hot and cold water are laid on
with considerable pressure. First the hot water
tap is turned and a hot shower bursts forth
on every side ; gradually the hot is turned off
while the cold is being turned on and so the
shower is reduced in temperature until it is perfectly
cold. After this, should the bather desire
it, he may enjoy the douch bath. This is a
simple stream of cold water descending from
a height of about twenty feet. The bather next
passes into a lavatory where towels are provided,
and having been thoroughly dried he is enveloped
in a sheet and left to lounge at pleasure in
the principal apartment. The directors of the
company have secured the services of an Indian
shampooer and his wife, who have both been for
six or seven years connected with the Turkish
Bath in Sydney, and who are therefore
thoroughly experienced. The establishment
will be set apart on two days in each week for
the use of ladies, and there can be little
doubt but it will be very largely patronised.
To visitors from the other colonies
during the summer it is sure to prove a great
attraction, and we believe the company have
introduced to the public an institution that will
prove something more than a "nine days' wonder,"
which most novelties in Hobart Town are. The
bath has been erected and furnished at a cost
of rather over £1200, and has been designed and
fitted up under the immediate superintendence
of Dr. Atherton, who was the chief promoter of
the company.
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