Robert Torrens the Transfer of Land by Registration" (1882). The River Torrens which runs through Adelaide, Torrens Bridge railway station, Torrens Linear Park, Torrens Parade Ground, Mount Torrens, Lake Torrens (and Lake Torrens National Park), and Torrens Island, were named after his father, Colonel Robert Torrens, chairman of the South Australian colonial commissioners. Places named after Sir Robert include the Canberra suburb of Torrens, Australian Capital Territory gazetted in 1966, the Electoral district of Torrens, the Adelaide suburbs of Torrensville, Torrens Park (and Torrens Park railway station) and Torrens Building on Victoria Square, Adelaide (and Torrens University Australia). He is honoured outside
Electoral district of Torrens 1938 election, lasting until the 1985 election, though it was won once by Labor at the 1944 election. Torrens was one of just three metropolitan seats (with Burnside and Mitcham) won by the Liberal and Country League in 1965 and 1968. Torrens was recreated in its current state for the 1993 election, based on much of the abolished seats of Gilles and Todd, as a nominally marginal Labor seat, but was won for the Liberal Joe Tiernan. Tiernan died while in office in 1994, and Robyn Geraghty reclaimed the seat for Labor at the Torrens by-election with an 8.6 percent