Frederick Hannaford

Frederick Hannaford (20 December 1829 – 16 March 1898) was a farmer and politician in the British colony of South Australia.

He was born in Devonshire, and migrated to South Australia on the ship Brightman with his mother Susannah Hannaford, née Elliott, a sister and four brothers, arriving in December 1840. He began farming on the Adelaide Plains, and later moved to Gumeracha. He set up an apple orchard at Mount Bera, Cudlee Creek, reputedly the first in the colony of South Australia. The farm and orchard were later taken over by his son and grandson.[1] He later moved to the River Gilbert region, and from 1876 with his brother John ran the Riverton Arms Hotel (later Riverton Hotel) in Riverton, and ran a flour milling business in Clare, which he sold to Charles Kimber in 1864.[2]

He was chairman of the District Council of Talunga (later merged into Barossa Council) from 1869 to 1873. (His nephew Ernest Hayler Hannaford (1879–1955) was chairman of the same Council 1912–1920.)

He was member for Gumeracha in the South Australian House of Assembly from February 1875 to April 1878,[3] a colleague of Ebenezer Ward.

He retired to Adelaide and died in Kent Town.[4]

  1. ^ "Racing to send apple cargoes off to England". The Australian Women's Weekly. 4 May 1946. p. 21. Retrieved 19 August 2015 – via Trove.
  2. ^ "The Old Clare Mill". The Northern Argus. 8 August 1924. p. 5. Retrieved 20 September 2015 – via Trove.
  3. ^ "Frederick Hannaford". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  4. ^ "The Late Mr. Frederick Hannaford". The Advertiser. 22 March 1898. p. 6. Retrieved 24 July 2015 – via Trove.