Carrington Smedley

Carrington Smedley was a politician in the colony of South Australia.

History

Carrington was born in Nottinghamshire 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. He set up in business in Kapunda and invested heavily in land there.
He was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Light 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 to visit England. They returned in 1861.
He was appointed Justice of the Peace in October 1857.

Family

His wife Harriet Smedley originally of Alverstoke, England, died at their residence in Glen Osmond on 28 June 1870. Their children included:

Sarah Seager Smedley
Harriet Garrett Smedley married Daniel Henry Cudmore on 20 February 1872.
Anne Emma Smedley married Alfred Palmer of Kapunda on 27 September 1870
Maria P. "Lilla" Smedley married George M. Henderson of Greenock on 14 June 1877
only son Samuel Smedley married Alice C. Saunders of Clare on 12 March 1884 and lived at Brougham Place. Their son Arthur Carrington Smedley lost a leg at Gallipoli, 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, the widow of William Peacock. 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, Semaphore, where he died.