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William Edward Everard (December 1819 – 25 August 1889) was a South Australian businessman and politician.
Everard was the son of Dr. Charles George Everard (1794–1876) and his wife Catherine (1786–1866), 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.[1] His father was one of the first eighteen elected to South Australia's unicameral Legislative Council in 1839.[2]
By 1843 William and his brother Charles were farming a jointly-owned property in Myponga, 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 and Glenelg.[3][4] Dr. Everard was the first colonist to grow wheat, on one of his City selections on Morphett Street.[3]
He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1863[9] He was a member of
Everard was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly for the district of Encounter Bay on 6 March 1865,[13] succeeding John Lindsay, along with David Sutherland.
At the general election of 1868, Everard was returned for the same constituency, this time with Neville Blyth
Everard did not stand for the sixth Parliament, then was returned to his old seat in December 1871, with Thomas Reynolds as his colleague. He was unseated on petition in February 1872 by the Court of Disputed Returns, which ended his connection with the Assembly.
Fourteen months later, Everard was elected a member of the Legislative Council, in company with Sir Henry Ayers, Alexander Hay, T. Hogarth, J. Fisher, R. A. Tarlton, and Walter Duffield, and continued as one of the eighteen members of the Upper House, who were elected by the whole province acting as one electoral district, until he vacated his seat on 1 August 1878.
While a member of parliament, Everard served in three Ministries:
His obituary in the South Australian Register noted:
The Hundred of Everard (County of Stanley), the locality of Everard Central, Mount Everard in the Musgrave Ranges, Lake Everard (near Lake Gairdner) and Everard Creek (now the Diamantina River) were named for William.[12]
5 March 1857, at Hanover Square, he married Maria Hughes (19 November 1820 – 21 June 1905),[14] sister of William Hughes F.R.G.S., a well known geographer and author.
Their property "Ashford" of 61 acres (25 ha) on Bay Road is now the suburb of Ashford on the Anzac Highway, Adelaide.
Everard's sister Eliza married her cousin, Ralf Everard Lucy, son of William Lucy and Elizabeth Everard, who died 31 March 1860 in Hillsley near Wotton under Edge, Gloucestershire.[15]
Everard's brother Charles John's first wife, also named Eliza, died 18 September 1850 aged 26; he married again, in Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire, to his cousin Charlotte Everard Lucy, on 23 March 1854. Their home was "Marshfield", a property of 150 acres (61 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. 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.[16]
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