Samuel Bakewell


Samuel Bakewell was a wholesale grocer and politician in the young colony of South Australia.

History

Samuel was born in Leicester, England, and emigrated on the Superb, arriving in South Australia on 11 July 1839.
He joined the brothers John and Thomas Waterhouse's grocery business on the corner of Rundle and King William Streets opposite the Beehive Corner. Around 1850 he opened his own wholesale grocery, "China tea warehouse", in Hindley Street, and was financially successful.
He was elected to the City of Adelaide seat in the South Australian House of Assembly and served from March 1860 to November 1862.
He was a member of the Strangers' Friend Society.

Family

Samuel Bakewell married Mary Ann Pye at Trinity Church, Adelaide on 24 April 1849. He married again, to her sister Eliza Hannah Pye at Trinity Church, Adelaide, on 25 July 1854. They had a home at Strangways Terrace, North Adelaide. Their children included:
  • Elizabeth Webb Bakewell married Alfred Richard Nicholls on 2 August 1870. Elizabeth was a prominent worker in the Temperance cause.
  • Agnes Caroline Bakewell married Arthur Pomeroy on 26 June 1873
  • Alfred Thomas Bakewell married Emma Symonds on 29 April 1886
  • Sarah Ann Bakewell married John Sampson Torr on 16 January 1889
  • Edward Howard Bakewell was a businessman and chairman of the Metropolitan Tramways Trust, and for whom the Bakewell Bridge, since demolished, was named.
  • Frederick Arnold Bakewell married Esther Stickland on 21 April 1885
His brother William Bakewell was also a politician.
Alfred Billing, the Mount Gambier timber merchant, was a nephew.