| Carrington Smedley | |||||||
| Birth Place: | Nottinghamshire, England | ||||||
| Death Place: | Semaphore, South Australia | ||||||
| Occupation: | draper, politician | ||||||
| Parents: | Joseph Smedley and Sarah nee Carrington | ||||||
| Spouse: | Harriet Garrett (1812 – 1870), Mary Ann Peacock formerly Evans nee Cheetham (1821 – 1908) | ||||||
| Children: | Sarah Seager Smedley (1842 – 1860), Harriet Garrett Cudmore (1845 –1879), Anne Emma Palmer (1849 – 1937), Maria Peacock Henderson (1851 –), Samuel Smedley (1855 –) | ||||||
| Relations: | Daniel Henry Cudmore (son-in-law), Henry Cheetham (father-in-law) | ||||||
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Carrington Smedley (8 October 1808 – 19 May 1895) was a politician in the colony of South Australia.
Carrington was born in Nottinghamshire and served an apprenticeship in the drapery business.[1]
Smedley and his wife and their two daughters emigrated to South Australia on the ship Thomas Lowry, arriving 6 December 1848. (The trip was by all accounts an unpleasant experience for the passengers.)[2] 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 (Lewis was to hold the same seat some ten years later) to visit England.[3] They returned in 1861.
He was appointed Justice of the Peace in October 1857.
His wife Harriet Smedley (née Garrett) originally of Alverstoke, England, died at their residence in Glen Osmond on 28 June 1870. Their children included:
On 4 March 1875 he married again, to Mary Ann Peacock (26 February 1821 – 27 April 1908), the widow of William Peacock.[5] 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.