William Frederick Stock
William Frederick Stock, M.P., (c. August 1847[1] – 23 November 1913)[2] was a South Australian lawyer and politician, briefly Attorney-General of South Australia in 1892.[3]
History[edit]
Stock was born in Clifton St Andrew, Gloucestershire, England, a son of Robert Stock and Caroline Stock, née Holland, and christened there on 3 September 1847.[1] Stock was one of five children who with their widowed mother sailed to South Australia aboard Statesman, arriving in February 1850.[4] He was educated at Adelaide Educational Institution[4] and St. Peter's College, Adelaide, and in England.[3] He was admitted to the South Australian Bar in June 1871, and was three times Mayor of Glenelg in the late 1870s. He was President of the Railway Employees' Association.[3] In 1886 he entered into a limited form of partnership with his nephew Sydney Talbot Smith as Stock & Talbot Smith.[5]
In 1887 he was elected to the seat of Sturt in the South Australian House of Assembly. In June 1892, on the accession to power of the Holder Ministry, Stock was appointed Attorney-General.[6][3]
On 23 November 1913, Stock died at a private hospital in North Adelaide after a long illness.[2]
His widow Mary Stock (previously Haigh, née Spicer) was a prominent worker for the Cheer-Up Society.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "William Frederick Stock, 1847". England, Bristol Parish Registers, 1538-1900", index, FamilySearch. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
- ^ a b "Deaths". South Australian Register. 24 November 1913. p. 6. Retrieved 26 August 2014 – via Trove.
- ^ a b c d Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ a b "Personal". The Advertiser. 24 November 1913. p. 14. Retrieved 10 July 2018 – via Trove.
- ^ Howell, P. A. (2002). "Smith, Sydney Talbot (1861–1948)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^ "William Frederick Stock". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
- ^ "Personal". The Express and Telegraph. 31 August 1917. p. 3. Retrieved 3 June 2018 – via Trove.