This article is about the South Australian family of manufacturers. For the (unrelated) British legal historian and author Alfred William Brian Simpson see A. W. B. Simpson

A. W. B. Simpson

Alfred William Brian Simpson QC , FBA usually referred to as A. W. B. Simpson, was a British legal historian and the emeritus Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.- References :...

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Alfred Allen Simpson was Mayor of the City of Adelaide

City of Adelaide

The City of Adelaide is a local government area in the metropolitan area of Adelaide, South Australia. It covers the original Adelaide city centre settlement, , North Adelaide, and the Adelaide Park Lands which surround North Adelaide and the city centre.Established in 1840, the organisation now...

 from 1913 to 1915.

The name Simpson Desert

Simpson Desert

The Simpson Desert is a large area of dry, red sandy plain and dunes in Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland in central Australia. It is the fourth largest Australian desert, with an area of 176,500 km² ....

 was coined in 1930 by Cecil Madigan

Cecil Madigan

Cecil Thomas Madigan was an Australian explorer and geologist born in Renmark, South Australia.After attending Prince Alfred College in Adelaide and the University of Adelaide, he won a Rhodes scholarship in 1911 to study geology at Magdalen College, Oxford.In 1911 he was invited by Sir Douglas...

, after Alfred Allen Simpson, an Australian philanthropist, geographer, and president of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia

Royal Geographical Society of Australasia

Royal Geographical Society of Australasia- On 22 June 1883, the Geographical Society of Australasia started at a meeting in Sydney . Branches were formed in Victoria and Queensland in the same year . In July 1885 the South Australian Branch started...

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From 1919, lived at Undelcarra in Burnside.

A. Simpson & Co., whitegoods manufacturer.

Family tree

1. Alfred Simpson (1805–1891)

2. Alfred Allen Simpson

2. Alfred Muller Simpson (1843-1917)

3. Alan Simpson

3. Fred N. Simpson married a daughter of Joseph Wilcox

Alfred Simpson (1805-1891)

Father: Alfred Simpson (1805–1891).

• Born 29 August 1805 London
• Married 21 June 1838 Sarah Neighbour
• They sailed in the John Woodhall for Melbourne but disembarked at Port Adelaide on 17 January 1849.
• Survived by two of his three children, he died on 23 September 1891 and was buried in the West Terrace cemetery.

Alfred Muller Simpson (1843-1917)

Brother: Alfred Muller Simpson (1843–1917).

• born on 4 April 1843 in London
• Beginning his apprenticeship in 1857 in his father's firm, he became a partner in 1864.
• On 18 October 1871 he married Catherine Allen.
• After the death of his first wife in 1887, he married Violet Laura Sheridan on 23 August 1888.
• He died of cancer on 28 September 1917 survived by two sons and three daughters.

Alfred Moxon Simpson

Alfred Moxon Simpson (17 November 1910 – 11 November 2001) of Stonyfell was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia on 6 June 1978 "For eminent and meritorious service to business and industry"

His wife, Elizabeth R(obson) Simpson (née Cleland) (16 October 1910 – 31 January 2005) was an historian and author of:

• The Hahndorf Walkers and the Beaumont Connection Beaumont Press, Adelaide 1983 ISBN 0959245804.
• The Clelands of Beaumont: a history of 26 generations of a South Australian family Beaumont Press, Adelaide 1986 ISBN 0959245812
• Beaumont House: The land and its people Beaumont Press, Adelaide 1993 ISBN 0959245820