William Everard (South Australian politician)

William Everard was a South Australian businessman and politician, a son of Dr. Charles George Everard

Charles Everard

Dr Charles George Everard MD was a physician, pioneer farmer, MP, in South Australia.Everard Park, South Australia was once part of his extensive land holdings....

M.P. (1794 – 30 March 1876) and his wife Catherine (1786 – 21 December 1866), originally of London.

The family, which included his mother and brothers Charles John Everard (ca.1822 – 22 July 1892) and James George (died 3 May 1840, aged 15), arrived in Adelaide on the ship "Africaine" under Captain John Finlay Duff in 1836. His father was one of the first eighteen elected to South Australia's unicameral Legislative Council in 1839.

By 1843 William and his brother Charles were farming a jointly-owned property in Myponga

Myponga, South Australia

Myponga is a settlement in South Australia. At the 2006 census, Myponga had a population of 540.-References:One of the first Pioneer Families to Settle the area, was the Family of CON POLDEN & MARY WINDSOR along with their children from Wiltshire SOUTH/WEST ENGLAND.-See also:*Myponga Reservoir...

, while Dr. C. G. Everard was developing his properties "Ashford" and "Marshfield", to the west and east of the Bay Road respectively, and comprising much of the land between Keswick

Keswick, South Australia

Keswick is an inner south-western suburb of Adelaide, adjacent to the park lands, and located in the City of West Torrens.-Keswick Barracks:Keswick is home to the Keswick Barracks, which is an Australian Army Barracks. It is home to the 9th Brigade , 10th/27th Bn. R. SA Rgt. , the 48th Field...

and Glenelg

Glenelg, South Australia

Glenelg is a popular beach-side suburb of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Located on the shore of Holdfast Bay in Gulf St Vincent, it has become a popular tourist destination due to its beach and many attractions, home to several hotels and dozens of restaurants.Established in 1836, it is...

. Dr. Everard was the first colonist to grow wheat, on one of his City selections on Morphett Street.

Business

For twenty years he was a Director of the National Bank
Director of the Trust and Agency Company
Director and for a time chairman of South Australian Mutual Life Assurance Society
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the City of Adelaide Land and Investment Co. Ltd.
Director of Adelaide, Payneham and Paradise Tramway Company
Director and Chairman of Adelaide and Goodwood Tramway Company
Director and Chairman City of Adelaide Land and Investment Co. Ltd.
connected with the Largs Bay Land and Investment Company
associated with the Hon. Lavington Glyde, A. Abrahams, and other gentlemen in working the well-known Talisker Mine
He was one of the original purchasers of town acres, and the family held a large area of city property. The land on which the Bank of New South Wales and the Adelaide Club now stand belonged to Everard at one time, and also the acre now occupied by the Government Offices in Victoria Square.

Civic, Cultural and Charitable

He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1863
He was a member of

Board of South Australian Institute from 1869 then the Public Library, Art Gallery and Museum
Council of Adelaide University from its inception in 1874 until his death
Board of Management of the Botanic Gardens from 1865
Central Road Board from 1863 to 1868
Unitarian Christian Church. In 1889 he sold to the Church trustees a portion of his city Section 302 on Wakefield Street
Wakefield Street, Adelaide
Wakefield Street is a main thoroughfare in the centre of the South Australian capital, Adelaide.It runs in east-west between East Terrace and Victoria Square, and is one of the three streets to run through Victoria Square in the middle of the Adelaide city centre. The same three streets are also...

, valued by the Commissioner of Taxes at £3,000, for the reduced sum of £560 and allowed an additional £150 off this for the Building Fund. He also contributed generously towards the minister's stipend and travelling costs of the first minister (Rev. J. Crawford Woods). He was a member of several Church charitable committees alongside Mrs. Everard was on a committee with Caroline Emily Clark, Mrs. J.C. Woods, Mrs. William Kay, Miss Kate Kay and Catherine Helen Spence
Catherine Helen Spence
Catherine Helen Spence was a Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragette. In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate after standing for the Federal Convention held in Adelaide...

.

Politics

He was elected to the House of Assembly for the District of Encounter Bay in March 1865, succeeding John Lindsay, having for his colleague David Sutherland.

At the general elections of 1868 Mr. Everard was returned for the same constituency, this time with Neville Blyth

He did not stand for the sixth Parliament, then was returned to his old seat in December 1871, with the Hon. Thomas Reynolds as his colleague. He was unseated on petition in February 1872 by the Court of Disputed Returns

Court of Disputed Returns

The Court of Disputed Returns is a court, or a tribunal, or some other body that determines disputes about elections in some common law countries. Sometimes the court may be known by another name, such as the Court of Disputed Elections...

, which ended his connection with the Assembly.

Fourteen months later was elected a member of the Legislative Council in company with Sir Henry Ayers, and Messrs. Alexander Hay, T. Hogarth, J. Fisher, R. A. Tarlton, and W. Duffield, and continued one of the eighteen members comprising the Upper House, who were then returned by the whole province acting as one electoral district, until he vacated his seat on August 1, 1878. While a member of the Legislature Mr. Everard served in three Ministries:

As Commissioner of Public Works in the Hart Administration, which was formed on September ?? 1868, then in the Ayers Ministry on the 13th of October following. Besides John Hart, his colleagues in this short-lived Ministry were Neville Blyth, J. T. Bagot and W. Townsend.
From 22 July 1873 to 3 June 1875, Everard was Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration in the Arthur Blyth Ministry. His other colleagues in that Ministry at various times were the Crown Solicitor (Hon. C. Mann, Q.C.), Mr. Justice Bundey, and the Hons. J. C. Bray, G. C. Hawker, H. E. Bright, and Lavington Glyde.
When Boucaut reconstructed his Cabinet on March 25, 1876, Everard was taken in as Minister of Education, succeeding Ebenezer Ward.

"Although his career as a politician was not distinguished in any special manner, Mr. Everard was undoubtedly an Independent and honest member and a hard working and trustworthy Minister of the Crown. In every sense of the word he proved himself a worthy citizen and colonist."

Recognition

The Hundred of Everard (County of Stanley), Mount Everard in the Musgrave Ranges, Lake Everard (near Lake Gairdner) and Everard Creek (now the Diamantina) were named for William. and Everard Park, South Australia

Everard Park, South Australia

Everard Park is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley, part of the once extensive land holdings of the prominent colonist Dr. Charles Everard, and the location of "Marshfield", the home of part of his family....

was the site of "Marshfield".

Family

5 March 1857, at Hanover Square, he married Maria Hughes, sister of William Hughes

William Hughes (geographer)

William Hughes F.R.G.S. was an English geographer, mapmaker and author.He was Professor of Geography at King's College and Queen's College, London and Royal Female Naval School...

F.R.G.S., a well known geographer and author.

Their property "Ashford" of 61 acres (24.7 ha) on Bay Road is now the suburb of Ashford on the Anzac Highway, Adelaide

Anzac Highway, Adelaide

The Anzac Highway is an 11 kilometre main arterial road heading southwest from the city of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, to the beachside suburb of Glenelg....

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His sister Eliza married William Lucy and died 31 March 1860 in Hillsley near Wotton under Edge, Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....

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His brother Charles John's first wife, also named Eliza, died 18 September 1850 aged 26; he married again, in Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire

Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire

Hawkesbury is a hamlet consisting of a few cottages around a triangular green, it is also the name of a civil parish in the South Gloucestershire unitary authority in England in which Hawkesbury itself lies, it is located west of Hawkesbury Upton, off the A46 road.The civil parish includes...

, to his cousin Charlotte Everard Lucy, on 23 March 1854. Their home was "Marshfield", a property of {convert|150|acre|ha}} on the east side of Bay Road (originally owned by Dr. C. G. Everard). His children William Francis (1855 – 1915), Eliza Catherine (1857 – 1966) and Rosa Maria (1860 – 1935) inherited Marshfield, progressively selling off sections to support themselves. Part of the original property is now the suburb of Everard Park

Everard Park, South Australia

. By 1908 the two sisters had been declared insolvent; William Francis Everard's widow disposed of what remained of his share, now a large part of the suburb of Keswick

Keswick, South Australia

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