Rumney
The division is named after Mount Rumney on Hobart's eastern outskirts. The mountain overlooks much of the division.
Mount Rumney (378 metres) is part of the Meehan Range, the dominant geographical feature of Hobart's Eastern Shore. The expansive views eastwards to Frederick Henry Bay and beyond, southwards to South Arm and Storm Bay and south-east to the Tasman Peninsula—the areas which comprise the Rumney division—have attracted residential development to the mountain.
The mountain and Rumney Creek are both named after William Rumney, who was a pound keeper and constable in the Rokeby area in the 1820s. He also owned land at Baden, near Oatlands. Baden was originally known as Rumney's Hut.
By 1828 Rumney was the major landowner in the area then known as Clarence Plains. That area had been named by Sir John Hayes in 1793 after his ship the Duke of Clarence, in which he explored much of southern Tasmania. The former Clarence Plains is modern-day Rokeby.
Rumney's holding ran from Ralphs Bay to Mount Rumney and through to Seven Mile Beach. He built Acton House on the eastern side of Mount Rumney some time before 1842.
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