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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the portrait of William Dawson Grubb that hangs in the hallway at Strathroy in northern Tasmania is only an opening gambit on the life of an extraordinary man and his considerable contribution to the state’s history. The benign-looking bearded gent with the steady gaze must also have had a steely determination to make the most of the opportunities that