Frederick Hannaford (20 December 1829 – 16 March 1898) was a farmer and politician in the British

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. He was born in

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shire, 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,

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, reputedly the first in the colony of South Australia. The farm and orchard were later taken over by his son and grandson. 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. He was chairman of the District Council of Talunga (later merged into

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) from 1869 to 1873. (His nephew

Ernest Hayler Hannaford Ernest Hayler Hannaford (21 June 1879 – 21 December 1955) was an Australian farmer and politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Murray from 1927 to 1930 for the Liberal Federation The Liberal Fed ...

(1879–1955) was chairman of the same Council 1912–1920.) He was member for Gumeracha in the

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from February 1875 to April 1878, a colleague of

Ebenezer Ward Ebenezer Ward (4 September 1837 – 8 October 1917) was an Australian politician and journalist. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1870 to 1880 and from 1881 to 1890, representing Gumeracha (1870–1880), Burra (18 ...

. He retired to Adelaide and died in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hannaford, Frederick Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Australian farmers 1829 births 1898 deaths 19th-century Australian politicians

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