SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COMPANY – FROM WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA

The South Australian Company was formed in London on 9 October 1835 by George Fife Angas and other wealthy British merchants to develop a new settlement in South Australia; its purpose was to build a new colony. The South Australian Company ended business in its own right on 17 March 1949 when its management was transferred to Elders Trustee & Executor Company Ltd.^[1]

Contents

• 1 Foundation
• 2 Arrivals of 1836
• 3 The Commissioners
• 4 Colonial Managers
• 5 Officers of the company
• 6 Company offices
• 7 List of people associated with the South Australian Company
• 8 References
• 9 Further reading
• 10 External links

Foundation

The formation of the company followed considerable lobbying by the South Australian Association, a group consisting of philanthropists, radical thinkers, dissenters and merchants. After a years of negotiation, false starts, changes and amendments to suggested charters, the British Parliament finally gave approval and passed the South Australian (Foundation) Act on 15 August 1834.^[2]
The founding Board of directors were George Fife Angas (Chairman); Raikes Currie; Charles Hindley M.P.; James Hyde; Henry Kingscote; John Pirie, Alderman; Christopher Rawson; John Rundle M.P.; Thomas Smith; James Ruddell Todd; and Henry Waymouth; with Edmund John Wheeler, Manager; Samuel Stephens, Colonial Manager; and Edward Hill, Secretary pro tem,^[3]

Arrivals of 1836

In January 1836 four ships sailed from England on behalf of the Company. They developed a settlement at Kingscote on Kangaroo Island, in July 1836, but when farming proved unviable, they transferred their settlement to the mainland. The Company provided basic infrastructure for the new colony, as well as sold or leased land to immigrants who came to settle.

27 July	Duke of York	(190 ton)	S.A. Company	38 passengers
30 July	Lady Mary Pelham	(206 ton)	S.A. Company	29
16 August	John Pirie	(105 ton)	S.A. Company	28
21 August	Rapid	(162 ton)	Commissioners	24
11 September	Cygnet	(239 ton)	Commissioners	84
5 October	Emma	(181 ton)	S.A. Company	22
2 November	L'Africaine	(316 ton)	Various	76
16 December	Tam O'Shanter	(360 ton)	O. Gilles	74
23 December	HMS Buffalo	(850 ton)	Commissioners	171[4]

The Commissioners

Under the Acts that established the Colony, the UK government appointed Commissioners to oversee implementation of the Acts; Thirteen based in London with a Resident Commissioner stationed in the colony. Those first appointed were Colonel Robert Torrens (Chairman), Rowland Hill (Secretary), G. Barnes (Treasurer), George Fife Angas, E. Barnard, William Hutt, J. G. Shaw-Lefevre, W. A. Mackinnon M.P., S. Mills, Jacob Montefiore, G. Palmer, and J. Wright. The first Resident Commissioner was James Hurtle Fisher.^[4]

Colonial Managers

The Colonial Managers ("CEOs" in South Australia) of the South Australian Company were:

Manager	From	To	Notes
Samuel Stephens	1836	1837	[5]
David McLaren	1837	1841	[6]
William Giles	1841	1861	[7]
William John Brind	1861	1894	[8][9]
Henry Yorke Sparks	1894	1900	[10][11]
Henry Percival Moore	1901	1929	[12][13]
Arthur Leopold Albert Muller	1930	1936	[14][15]
?	1936	1949

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  David McLaren 1837-1841
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  William Giles 1841-1860
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  William Brind 1861-1894
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  Henry Sparks 1894-1900
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  Henry Moore 1901-1929
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  Arthur Muller 1930-1936

Officers of the company

Most of the major streets in the Adelaide city centre were named after the founding directors of the company

Chairmen

• 1836-18?? George Fife Angas (1789–1879) ^[3][16][17] (Angas Street)
• 1899-1923 Henry Joslin ^[18]

Directors

• 1836-18?? Raikes Currie ^[3] (Currie Street)
• 1836-18?? Charles Hindley (Hindley Street)
• 1836-18?? James Hyde
• 1836-18?? Henry Kingscote
• 1836-18?? John Pirie (Pirie Street)
• 1836-18?? Christopher Rawson
• 1836-18?? John Rundle (Rundle Street)
• 1836-18?? Thomas Smith
• 1836-18?? James Ruddell Todd
• 1836-18?? Henry Waymouth (Waymouth Street)
• 1880-1911 Major General Sir Stanley De A.C. Clarke, G.C.V.O., C.M.G.^[19]
• 1889-1919 Sir John H. Kennaway, Bart. C.B., M.P.^[20]
• 1891-1922 Andrew Johnston ^[21]
• 1895-1931 John Henry Grant ^[22]
• 1899-1931 Sir R.H. Hermon Hodge (later Lord Wyfold) ^[23]
• Joseph Fisher
• Robert Barr Smith
• Tom Elder Barr Smith ^[24]

Company Secretaries

• 1878-1911 James Hutchison ^[25]
• 1911-1930+ Henry Brandreth Gibbs F.C.I.S.^[26]

Attorneys in South Australia

• William Bartley ^[27]
• 1850-1906 Sir Samuel Davenport, K.C.M.G.^[28]
• 1876-1923 John Warren Bakewell ^[29]

Local Board of Advice, Adelaide

• 1841-1885 William Bartley ^[27]
• 1841-18?? Edward Stephens
• 1856-1870 William Bakewell, M.P., Crown Solicitor ^[30]
• 1876-1923 John Warren Bakewell ^[29]
• 1886-1930+ Joseph Fisher ^[31]
• 1894-1932 Sir John Lancelot Stirling K.C.M.G., M.L.C.^[32]

Accountants

• Edward Stephens
• Edward Robert Simpson (died 11 July 1900) ^[33]

Company offices

From 1872, the South Australian Company occupied offices on North Terrace on the corner of Gawler Place. The new building, "Gawler Chambers", was completed in 1914.

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  First office, erected 1836 at Kingscote, Kangaroo Island. (ca.1870)
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  North Terrace east, corner of Gawler Place. (ca.1872)
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  ca.1900
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  ca.1909
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  "Gawler Chambers" ca.1914
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  ca.1914

List of people associated with the South Australian Company

Most of the major streets in the Adelaide city centre were named after the founding directors of the company

Who	Association	Streets	Notes
George Fife Angas	Commissioner	Angas Street
Divett, Edward	Trustee	Divett Place
Sir James Hurtle Fisher (1790–1875)	Resident Commissioner (#1)	Hurtle Square	[34]
Fussell, John	Trustee
George Gawler (1795–1869)	Governor of SA (1838-1841)	Gawler Place	Gawler (town), Gawler Ranges, etc. Refer Gawler (disambiguation)[35]
William Giles (1791–1862)	Colonial Manager (1841-1860)		[7]
Robert Gouger (1802–1846)	Colonial secretary (#1)	Gouger Street	[36]
Pascoe St Leger Grenfell MP		Grenfell Street
Sir George Grey (1812–1898)	Governor of SA (1841-1845)		[37]
Charles Hindley	Founding director	Hindley Street	[3]
Sir John Hindmarsh (1785–1860)	Governor of SA (1836-1838)	Hindmarsh Square	[38]
William Hutt	Commissioner	Hutt Street
Kingscote, Henry	Founding Director		Kingscote, Kangaroo Island[3]
Sir George Strickland Kingston (1807–1880)	Deputy Surveyor General		[39]
William Light (1786–1839)	Surveyor General	Light Square	[40]
David McLaren (1785–1850)	Colonial Manager (1837-1841)		[6]
Moore, Henry Percival	Colonial Manager (1901-1929)		[12][13]
Sir John Morphett (1809–1892)		Morphett Street	[41]
Muller, Arthur Leopold Albert	Colonial Manager (1930-1936)		[14][15]
Sir John Pirie	Founding director	Pirie Street	[3]
Rawson, Christopher	Founding director		[3]
Frederick Robe (1801-1871)	Governor of SA (1845-1848)		Robe, South Australia[42]
John Rundle	Founding director	Rundle Street	[3]
Smith, Thomas	Founding director		[3]
Sparks, Henry Yorke	Colonial Manager (1894-1900)		[9][10][11]
Edward Stephens (1811–1861)	First manager of SA Banking Co		[43]
Samuel Stephens (1808–1840)	Colonial Manager (1836-1837)		[5]
Todd, James Ruddell	Founding director		[3]
Robert Torrens (1780–1864)	Commissioner		[44]
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862)		Wakefield Street	[45]
Henry Waymouth	Founding director	Waymouth Street	[3]
Sir Henry Edward Fox Young (1803-1870)	Governor of SA (1848-1854)		[46]

References

• Deed of settlement (Details), State Library of South Australia

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2. Jump up ^ History of the South Australian Company, SA Memory
3. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} The South Australian Company South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register 18 June 1836 p.6
4. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b} Majority of the Colony of South Australia South Australian Register 5 January 1858 p.3 accessed 2 July 2011
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8. Jump up ^ William John Brind SA Memory
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   Resignation of Mr. W.J. Brind and appointment of Mr. H.Y. Sparks as Manager; biographical sketch of Henry Yorke Sparks.
10. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b} Death of Mr. H. Y. Sparks South Australian Register 22 October 1900 p.4
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Further reading

• Price, A. Grenfell, Founders & Pioneers of South Australia, Adelaide, 1929
• Sutherland, George, The South Australian Company; a study in colonisation, London; New York: Longmans, Green, 1898.
• Pearse, Malcolm, Australia's Early Managers Australia Pacific Economic and Business History Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, February 2010. p. 12
• State Library of South Australia factsheets online: South Australian Company

External links

• Copyright photo of a South Australian Company promisary note for sixpence, issue Kingscote, 1 June 1836, signed by Samuel Stephens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australian_Company