aged just 44. He left an estate of £190,800, and was survived by four children and his wife Elizabeth. John Francis Coghlan (occupied Shubra Hall 1882–1889) John Francis Coghlan was born in Ireland in 1835 and may have arrived in Australia with the Victorian gold rush in the 1850s. According to an obituary which appeared in the Freeman's Journal, Coghlan's connection to mining commenced in the early 1850s in Victoria "and what money he made then and subsequently was employed in the development of mining". By 1874 he was in Sydney where he married Josephine Murphy in St Mary's Church. Four years later he formed the Australian Diamond Rock Drill and Boring Company Limited to manufacture diamond rock drills and commenced his own boring experiments at the Sydney Coal Company's works at Newington on the Parramatta River. The experiment was not successful and he turned his attention to other sites in the vicinity of Sydney, drilling bores at Port Hacking, Holt-Sutherland, Moorebank, Heathcote, and Moore Park and Rose Bay. He discovered two fine seams of coal at Stockton and Cockle Creek in Newcastle. In 1889, Coghlan was declared insolvent and was forced to sell his residence at Croydon. With his large family he moved to Glebe Point where he died on 10 July 1896, aged 61 years. Albert Bond (attributed architect of Shubra Hall) Albert Bond was appointed the first full time architect to the Municipal Council of Sydney and served in that position from 1873 to 1877. He is believed to be responsible for the detailed design of the turrets, addition of the stained glass dome and for the decoration of the Vestibule of the Sydney Town Hall. Following his resignation he formed his own architectural practice with offices in Bell's Chamber, 129 Pitt Street. He was responsible for the design of a large number of stores and commercial buildings, but his most notable buildings were the two Anthony Hordern and Sons department stores in Sydney. Bond died on 27 March 1923 at Omrah Private Hospital. He never married. His substantial body of work includes: Anthony Hordern and Sons, The Palace Emporium and The New Palace Emporium Harrison, Jones & Devlin, wool and produce store (1882) Farmer & Co store (1883) Presbyterian Church, Botany (1879) Athanaeum Club, Sydney (1887) Retford Park, Old South Road, Bowral, for Samuel Hordern in a Victorian Italianate style (1887) Congregational Church, Pitt Street (internal