Samuel Dening Glyde

Samuel Dening Glyde (18 August 1842 – 27 January 1898) was a politician in the colony of South Australia.

Glyde was born in Wayford, Somerset in 1842.[1] He migrated to Victoria, Australia at age 18 but moved on to New Zealand.[1][2] He lived in Prebbleton in rural Canterbury[3] and was well known for his contributions towards the establishment of an education system in the Broadfield and Springston districts.[4] He was a local farmer and in addition, he was surveyor and clerk for the road boards of Springs and Lincoln.[5] He left New Zealand for Adelaide in mid-1871 and his farewell dinner in Prebbleton was chaired by Arthur Charles Knight, the local representative on the Canterbury Provincial Council, and Christchurch identity John Ollivier gave an entertaining address.[5]

Glyde moved to South Australia in mid-1871 and found employment with his brother's firm Morgan, Connor, & Glyde, wheat merchants,[2] later becoming a partner.[6] In 1882 they joined a consortium, the Adelaide Milling Company, with John Hart & Co., W. Duffield & Co., James Cowan & Co., and Harrold Brothers.[7]

He purchased land which he subdivided as the suburb Sefton Park.[8]

He was an able writer, and made significant contributions to both the Register and The Advertiser,[9] and other publications interstate and overseas.[10]

He served from 1875 to 1878 as Mayor of Kensington and Norwood. He was involved in the Volunteer Military Force and from 1877 was Captain of F Company (Kensington and Norwood). When the Board of Governors of Canterbury College decided to set up an agricultural college, two of the five applications received were from Melbourne. Glyde was tasked with interviewing the candidates, and he travelled across from Adelaide. Both men were qualified, and whilst one of the applicants had "greater scientific attainment", Glyde recommended the other candidate, William Ivey, for the position. Glyde's recommendation was accepted, and Ivey became the inaugural director in 1878 of what is now Lincoln University.[11]

Glyde was appointed director of the Commercial Marine Insurance Company, Warden of the Marine Board from 1880. He was elected to the seat of Sturt in the South Australian House of Assembly following the resignation of Thomas King, and served from July 1885 to April 1887, his colleague being Josiah Symon. He was chairman of the board of directors of the Town and Country Bank, which failed in 1887 immediately after the Commercial Bank of Australia,[12]

Around 1893 he left for Mildura, Victoria, where several of his sons had taken up irrigation blocks, and was a prominent citizen, serving as Councillor 1893–1894.[13] In 1896 he left for Perth in Western Australia. He died in Perth during a typhoid epidemic on 27 January 1898.[1] He was buried at East Perth Cemeteries.[14]

Family

Elijah Glyde was his father, and Sarah Glyde (née Denning or Dening) was his mother.[14] On 1 September 1864, Samuel Dening Glyde married (Anna) Cordelia England Gillingham (? – 14 December 1940) at St Peter's Anglican Church in Upper Riccarton;[1][15] their children included:

William Dening Glyde (c. 1826 – 4 January 1901), wheat merchant and MLC was a brother.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Holmes, John, ed. (February 1996). "Samuel Dening Glyde" (PDF). Lincoln Historical Society (8): 2–3. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 "The Week". Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954) (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia). 29 January 1898. p. 11. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Our Village". The Press. XVIII (2532). 13 June 1871. p. 3. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Tea Meeting at Broadfields". The Press. XVIII (2552). 6 July 1871. p. 3. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Dinner to Mr. S. D. Glyde". The Press. XVIII (2552). 6 July 1871. p. 3. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Advertising". Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912) (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia). 28 February 1880. p. 4. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Advertising.". South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia). 1 August 1882. p. 2. Retrieved 3 September 2015. This was the largest company registered in South Australia up to that time.
  8. ↑ "Suburbs and Subdivisions within the City of Port Adelaide - Enfield" (PDF). Retrieved 3 September 2015. This reference has S. D. Glyde first arriving in Adelaide on the Orient in 1868.
  9. ↑ "The Contributor: Up the Murray to Renmark and Mildura". South Australian Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1895) (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia). 12 March 1892. p. 6. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  10. ↑ "Obituary". Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912) (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia). 28 January 1898. p. 2. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  11. ↑ Blair, Ian Douglas (1978). The Seed They Sowed: Centennial Story of Lincoln College (PDF). Lincoln, New Zealand: Lincoln College. pp. 7f.
  12. ↑ "The Town and Country Bank". Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904) (SA: National Library of Australia). 4 June 1887. p. 25. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  13. ↑ "Shire of Mildura". The Mildura Cultivator (Vic. : 1888 - 1920) (Vic.: National Library of Australia). 17 April 1920. p. 13. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  14. 1 2 "Glyde". National Trust of Australia. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  15. ↑ "Marriage Search". Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 31 August 2015. Enter "Glyde" and "Gillingham" and "01/09/1864" as search terms
  16. ↑ "Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs: A. D. Glyde". Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  17. ↑ "Death". The Press XVII (2300). 6 September 1870. p. 2. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
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