Thomas Francis Hyland (c. 1831 – 1 March 1920) was a businessman of Victoria, Australia, instrumental in turning Penfolds Wines from a cottage industry to an Australian icon. History Thomas Francis Hyland was born in Ireland, the youngest son of John Hyland, of Ballinalard, a small village 2 km west of Tipperary, Ireland. He migrated to Australia at the time of the gold rush, worked at the diggings, and in 1853 gained employment as a warder at Pentridge Stockade then the hulk President, was promoted to chief warder of the hulk Success, was transferred to Collingwood Stockade, then governor of Portland Gaol, finally to become around 1868 the notoriously hard-driving governor of Castlemaine Gaol. On 24 September 1862, he married Mary Georgina Anne "Georgina" Penfold, only child of Dr. Christopher Rawson Penfold (2 August 1811 – 26 March 1870) and Mary Penfold, née Holt (1816 – 31 December 1895) of "The Grange", Magill. Dr. Penfold, son of John Penfold, vicar of Steyning, Sussex, was trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and practised medicine at fashionable Brighton from 1838 to 1844. He married Mary, daughter of Dr. Thomas Holt of Edmonton, London, on 26 May 1835. They migrated to South Australia aboard Taglioni, arriving in June 1844 with their daughter Georgina, and servant Ellen Timbrell. He was in straitened finances: apart from the cost of the voyage, he had spent £1200 on their Magill property, purchased sight unseen from Robert Cock and William Ferguson. He had borrowed £200 from his cousin Thomas Brooks Penfold before leaving England; three years later the cousin, who followed him a year later aboard Augustus, was anxious for its return, with interest. He had brought vine cuttings from England and France, mostly Grenache, their cut ends sealed with wax. He planted a vineyard near the house, and within a few years was making red wines, carefully stored in small French oak casks. Mary is known to have had a major part in its production and blending. Soon they had more than enough for his grateful patients (in those days fortified red wine, particularly port, was considered beneficial for anemia and other complaints, and Penfold had no faith in the efficacy of the imported product), and enjoyed modest sales in Victoria as well as South Australia. Penfold was a successful doctor and popular figure in the area. He was on the building committee of St. George's Anglican Church,