Samuel Dening Glyde (18 August 1842 – 27 January 1898) was a politician in the colony of South Australia.
Glyde was born in
Wayford
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History
The parish was part of the hundred of Crewkerne.
Wayford Manor House was rebuilt around 1600 by Cha ...
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Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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in 1842.
He migrated to
Victoria
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, Australia at age 18 but moved on to New Zealand.
He lived in
Prebbleton
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Prebbleton dates back to ...
in rural
Canterbury
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and was well known for his contributions towards the establishment of an education system in the
Broadfield and
Springston
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Springston was developed around the mid-19th century, beginning with the establishment of Spring Station by James E. FitzGerald, who farmed there from 1853 to 185 ...
districts.
He was a local farmer and in addition, he was surveyor and clerk for the road boards of Springs and
Lincoln
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.
He left New Zealand for
Adelaide
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in mid-1871 and his farewell dinner in Prebbleton was chaired by Arthur Charles Knight, the local representative on the
Canterbury Provincial Council
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History
Canterbury was founded in December 1850 by the Canterbury Association of influential Eng ...
, and
Christchurch
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identity
John Ollivier gave an entertaining address.
Glyde moved to South Australia in mid-1871 and found employment with his brother's firm Morgan, Connor, & Glyde, wheat merchants,
later becoming a partner. In 1882 they joined a consortium, the Adelaide Milling Company, with
John Hart & Co.,
W. Duffield & Co.,
James Cowan & Co., and
Harrold Brothers.
He purchased land which he subdivided as the suburb
Sefton Park.
He was an able writer, and made significant contributions to both the ''
Register
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'' and ''
The Advertiser'', and other publications interstate and overseas.
He served from 1875 to 1878 as Mayor of the
Town of Kensington and Norwood. He was involved in the
South Australian Volunteer Military Force and from 1877 was Captain of F Company (Kensington and Norwood). When the Board of Governors of
Canterbury College Canterbury College may refer to:
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decided to set up an agricultural college, two of the five applications received were from
Melbourne
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. Glyde was tasked with interviewing the candidates, and he travelled across from Adelaide. Both men were qualified, and whilst one of the applicants had "greater scientific attainment", Glyde recommended the other candidate,
William Ivey, for the position. Glyde's recommendation was accepted, and Ivey became the inaugural director in 1878 of what is now
Lincoln University.
Glyde was appointed director of the Commercial Marine Insurance Company, Warden of the Marine Board from 1880. He was elected to the seat of
Sturt in the
South Australian House of Assembly
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Overview
The House of Assembly was creat ...
following the resignation of
Thomas King, and served from July 1885 to April 1887,
his colleague being
Josiah Symon
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. He was chairman of the board of directors of the Town and Country Bank, which failed in 1887 immediately after the Commercial Bank of Australia,
Around 1893 he left for
Mildura, Victoria
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, where several of his sons had taken up irrigation blocks, and was a prominent citizen, serving as Councillor 1893–1894. In 1896 he left for
Perth
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in Western Australia. He died in Perth during a typhoid epidemic on 27 January 1898.
He was buried at
East Perth Cemeteries
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.
Family
Elijah Glyde was his father, and Sarah Glyde (née Denning or Dening) was his mother.
On 1 September 1864, Samuel Dening Glyde married (Anna) Cordelia England Gillingham (? – 14 December 1940) at St Peter's Anglican Church in
Upper Riccarton
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Upper Riccarton is made up of residential, retail and education areas. It includes a major intersection known as "Church Corner" (the intersection of Riccarton, Main Sout ...
;
their children included:
*Arthur Dening Glyde (1865 – 18 September 1922), born in New Zealand, settled Western Australia c. 1900.
*Alice Cordelia Glyde (1867– ), born in New Zealand
*Blanche Mary Glyde (1869–1870), born and died in New Zealand
*William England Glyde (1870– ), born in New Zealand, married Alice Amelia Adkinson (c. 1864 – 17 January 1922) of Perth on 6 May 1897
*Samuel Stedman Glyde (3 December 1872 – 3 February 1949), born in South Australia, married Emma Maria "Em" England on 8 October 1896, later of Perth, Western Australia.
*England Gillingham Glyde (6 November 1882 – 7 April 1942), Captain,
28th Battalion,
1st AIF, married (nursing Sister) Irvin Bartley Whiteley ( – 12 June 1954) on 29 March 1919
*Frank Cave Glyde (10 March 1884 – 17 February 1947) married Phillis Napier Birks on 4 April 1913, later of Perth, Western Australia.
William Dening Glyde
William Dening Glyde (c. 1826 – 4 January 1901) was a wheat merchant and politician in the colony of South Australia.
Glyde was born the son of Elijah Glyde, a gentleman farmer of Waylord, Somerset and his wife Sarah, née Dening or Denning. ...
(c. 1826 – 4 January 1901), wheat merchant and
MLC was a brother.
References
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1842 births
1898 deaths
People from South Somerset (district)
English emigrants to colonial Australia
New Zealand farmers
Members of the South Australian House of Assembly
Burials at East Perth Cemeteries
Australian flour millers and merchants
19th-century Australian politicians
Mayors of places in South Australia
19th-century Australian businesspeople