William James Magarey (1840 – 15 December 1920) was a flour miller and politician in the early days of the
colony of South Australia
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.
History
William was a son of
Thomas Magarey
Thomas Magarey (25 February 1825 – 31 August 1902) was an Irish-born miller and pastoralist who, with his brother James, migrated to Nelson, New Zealand in 1842 (aged 17), and to Adelaide, South Australia in 1845 (aged 20). He was also one of ...
's brother, James Magarey ( – 11 August 1859). James Magarey ran Gannawarra Station on Gunbower Creek (a tributary of the
River Murray
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), later owned a flour mill in
Hindmarsh, South Australia
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The suburb is located between South Road, Adelaide, South Road to the west and North Adelaide. The Rive ...
, then moved to "Laurel Bank Villa",
Geelong, Victoria
Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, a ...
and drowned following the wreck of .
William worked on his father's station and moved to Geelong with him.
He took over the flour mill at
Hindmarsh and purchased one at
Port Pirie
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. He held the House of Assembly seat of
West Torrens from
April 1878 to March 1881.
Other activities
He was on the boards of the Savings Bank, National Mutual Life Association, and the South Australian Woollen Company. He was also chairman for some years of the Executor and Trustee Agency Company and British Broken Hill Proprietary.
He was an enthusiastic member of South Australia's Volunteer Force (a pre-
Federation
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militia).
Family
On 10 March 1864 he married Anna Eliza Bundey ( – 10 August 1920), a sister of Sir
Henry Bundey
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; they had a daughter Edith May (died before 1920), and a son
William Ashley Magarey
William Ashley Magarey (30 January 1868 – 18 October 1929) was a lawyer, sportsman and sports administrator. He was the first chairman of the South Australian Football Association (SAFA) (later named South Australian National Football League ...
(1868–1929), South Australian lawyer, originator of the
Magarey Medal
The Magarey Medal is an Australian rules football honour awarded annually since 1898 to the fairest and most brilliant player in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), as judged by field umpires. The award was created by Willia ...
.
Around 1908 he became afflicted with rheumatism, but refused to relinquish any of his duties until incapable of walking.
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See also
*John Dunn (miller)
John Dunn Sr. (13 February 1802 – 13 October 1894) was a flour miller in the early days of the colony of South Australia; a parliamentarian, philanthropist and a prominent citizen of Mount Barker, South Australia.
Career
He was born in the pa ...
*William Randell
William Richard Randell "Captain Randell" (2 May 1824 – 4 March 1911),
was an Australian politician and pioneer born in Devon, England, who emigrated to the newly founded colony of South Australia in 1837 with his family. He was a pioneer ...
*John Darling and Son
John Darling and Son was an Australian wheat merchant and flour milling company founded in Adelaide, South Australia, for many years the largest in Australia.
It was founded by John Darling Sr. (1831–1905), a businessman of Scottish origin, ...
*John Hart (South Australian colonist)
Captain John Hart CMG (25 February 1809 – 28 January 1873) was a South Australian politician and a Premier of South Australia.
Early life
The son of journalist/newspaper publisher John Harriott Hart and Mary Hart ''née'' Glanville, John ...
* Henry Kent Hughes
*John Ridley (inventor)
John Ridley (26 May 1806 – 25 November 1887) was an English miller, inventor, landowner, investor, farming machinery manufacturer, farmer and preacher who lived in Australia between 1839 and 1853. He is best known for the development, manufact ...
References
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Members of the South Australian House of Assembly
Australian flour millers and merchants
1840 births
1920 deaths