Robert Torrens (economist) on the currency, and some literary efforts of a lighter class, extend over a period of fifty years. For some time Colonel Torrens was a part proprietor and editor of the Globe newspaper. He was a skilful and lucid writer, and succeeded in throwing considerable light upon some of those abstruse questions connected with monetary science which are the stumbling-block of economical students." He died 27 May 1864, aged 84. His son Robert Torrens, the colonial Premier of South Australia, invented the Torrens title system of registering land titles, which is widely used in the British Commonwealth and other states
Parish of Torrens Parish of Torrens Torrens Parish, New South Wales located at 29°14′00″S 142°09′27″E is a rural locality in and a cadastral parish of Tongowoko County, two kilometers north east from the town of Tibooburra, New South Wales. The parish is north east of Tibooburra, within the Sturt National Park. The geography is typical of the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country. The Geography, of the parish is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert). The parish is barely inhabited with a population density of less than 1