Edward Kendall Crace (1844–1892) was an Australian pastoralist who owned extensive land holdings around Canberra. Crace was the son of the English interior designer

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(1809-1889) and his wife, Sarah Jane Hine Langley. Crace owned the properties of

Ginninderra Ginninderra is the name of the former agricultural lands surrendered to urban development on the western and north-western fringes of Canberra, the capital of Australia. Ginninderra corresponds with the watershed of Ginninderra Creek, which is ...

and

Gungahlin The District of Gungahlin () is one of the original eighteen districts of the Australian Capital Territory used in land administration. The Gungahlin Region is one of fastest growing regions within Australia. The district is subdivided into div ...

and added Charnwood to his holdings in 1880. He arrived in Australia in 1865 on the '' Duncan Dunbar'' after being shipwrecked. In 1871 he married Kate Marion who had also been on the ''Duncan Dunbar'' and they had six daughters and two sons. One son, Everard Crace founded a farmers union to promote more scientific farming methods, and his other son, also named

became a commander in the

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. Edward Crace and his coachman died when trying to cross a flooded

Ginninderra Creek Ginninderra Creek, a partly perennial stream of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Capital Country region spanning both the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales, Australia. ''Ginninder ...

in 1892. The suburb of Crace is named after him, as is Crace Street in Weetangera.

References

* ''Exploring the ACT and Southeast New South Wales'', J. Kay McDonald, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1985 {{DEFAULTSORT:Crace, Edward Kendall 1844 births 1892 deaths People from the Australian Capital Territory Australian pastoralists 19th-century Australian businesspeople