Carrington Smedley (8 October 1808 – 19 May 1895) was a politician in the colony of South Australia.

History

Carrington was born in

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and served an apprenticeship in the drapery business. Smedley and his wife and their two daughters emigrated to South Australia on the ship ''Thomas Lowry'', arriving 6 December 1848. (The trip was by all accounts an unpleasant experience for the passengers.) He set up in business in

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and invested heavily in land there. He was elected to the

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seat of

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as an associate of J. T. Bagot, and sat from February 1857 to December 1857, when he sold his business to William Lewis and resigned his seat (Lewis was to hold the same seat some ten years later) to visit England. They returned in 1861. He was appointed Justice of the Peace in October 1857.

Family

His wife Harriet Smedley (née Garrett) originally of

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, England, died at their residence in

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on 28 June 1870. Their children included: *Sarah Seager Smedley (1842 – 1860) *Harriet Garrett Smedley (1845 – 16 March 1879) married Daniel Henry Cudmore on 20 February 1872. *Anne Emma Smedley ( – 13 October 1937) married Alfred Palmer of Kapunda on 27 September 1870 *Maria P. "Lilla" Smedley married George M. Henderson of

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on 14 June 1877 *only son Samuel Smedley married Alice C. Saunders of

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on 12 March 1884 and lived at Brougham Place. Their son Arthur Carrington Smedley (19 November 1886 – 19 August 1915) lost a leg at

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, and reportedly died, but whose papers were lost so for a time was posted as "missing". On 4 March 1875 he married again, to Mary Ann Peacock (26 February 1821 – 27 April 1908), the widow of William Peacock.Mary Ann Cheetham (26 February 1821 – 27 April 1908) was the eldest daughter of Rev. Henry Cheetham (1801–1881). She married bridge contractor William Evans ( – ) in England, she married again, to William Peacock (c. 1790–1874) on 15 June 1871. Their home for around nine years was the Peacock mansion "Palm House" in Hackney, later part of St. Peter's College. In 1883 they moved to "Torrens Villa", Ellen Street,

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, where he died.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Smedley, Carrington Members of the South Australian House of Assembly 1808 births 1895 deaths Politicians from the Colony of South Australia