{{Short description|Australian politician (1795–1877)}} {{about||his son, the lawyer and politician in South Australia|Henry Hay Mildred}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox person |name = Henry Richard Mildred |image = Henry Richard Mildred (1795 - 1877) part of SLSA B-18517.jpg |birth_date = {{birth_date|1795|03|09|df=yes}} |birth_place = Portsea, Hampshire, England |death_date = {{death_date_and_age|1877|03|22|1795|03|09|df=yes}} |death_place = Port Adelaide, South Australia |spouse = Elizabeth Sarah Bowyer |children = Clarissa Martha Margaret Mildred (1821–1870), Hiram Telemachus Mildred (1823–1892), Urania Harriet Mildred (1824–1896), William Henry Mildred (1837–1838), Henry Hay Mildred (1839 – 1920) |module = {{Infobox officeholder|embed = yes | office1 = member for Noarlunga in the South Australian House of Assembly | term_start1 = 1857 | term_end1 = 1860 | office2 = member for East Torrens in the South Australian House of Assembly | term_start2 = 1860 | term_end2 = 1865 | office3 = South Australian Legislative Council | term_start3 = 1866 | term_end3 = 1871 }}}}
'''Henry Richard Mildred''' (9 March 1795 – 22 March 1877) was a politician in the early days of the Colony of South Australia.
==History== Mildred was born in Portsea, Hampshire, England.<ref name=Loyau>{{cite book |last=Loyau |first=George E. |date=1885 |title=Notable South Australians or Colonists Past and Present 1885 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/henryrichardmildred/ |access-date=2 September 2014}}</ref> Trained as a shipbuilder, he was contracted by the South Australian Company on the ''South Australian'' with David McLaren, arriving at Kangaroo Island on 22 April 1837,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mildred family |url=https://archival.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/prg/PRG307_Mildredfamily_serieslist.pdf |access-date=2022-12-05 |website=PRG 307 series list |publisher=State Library of South Australia}}</ref> to manage the purchase and loading of major machinery which was ultimately used for "Fletcher's Patent Slip", for the Company's flour mill, eventually installed on the Torrens where the Hackney Hotel is now, and for a sawmill which may have been used at Cox's Creek.<ref name="heads">{{cite news |date=24 March 1877 |title=Heads of Intelligence |page=4 |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33746665 |access-date=2 September 2014 |via=Trove}}</ref><!--surely not (Justice) Hanson; perhaps G. M. Stephen --> Mildred was invited to get this equipment running but he demurred, and it lay idle for some time.
Shortly after arrival on Kangaroo Island, Mildred, T. H. Beare and William Giles imported a batch of Merino ewes from Van Diemens Land, some of the first brought into the colony, though stock losses on the unusually long trip aboard the {{ship||Cygnet|barque|2}} were considerable.<ref>{{cite news |date=1 March 1884 |title=The Merino in South Australia |page=10 |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160093755 |access-date=13 January 2017 |via=Trove}}</ref>
The land he selected, on Fourth Creek, and where he lived for the rest of his life, turned out to be quite valuable, and made his fortune.<ref name=heads/><!--(did he farm it, subdivide it? rent it? Where did he get his income? -->
==Politics== He served on the Adelaide Municipal Council from 1841 to 1843. He was one of the colonists who strenuously opposed bringing out boys from the Parkhurst prison. He contested the election for the Legislative Council seat of Burra without success, but in 1850 was appointed to the Main Roads Commission and later that year appointed Justice of the Peace, and in 1858 made a Special Magistrate. In 1851 sat for, but failed to win, one of the first elected positions on the Legislative Council.
He represented Noarlunga in the first House of Assembly from 1857 to 1860, East Torrens from 1860 to 1865, and held a seat in the Legislative Council from 1866 to 1871.<ref name="SA parl">{{Cite SA-parl|pid=4185|name=Henry Mildred|former=yes|access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref>
He was appointed a member of the Central Road Board Committee in March 1858 and was appointed Special Magistrate in November 1858.
==Family== thumb|Four Generations of the Mildred Family; April 1864. He was married to Elizabeth Sarah, ''née'' Bowyer, and had three sons and two daughters: *Clarissa Martha Margaret Mildred (22 September 1821 – 19 November 1870) married Captain (of the {{ship||John Pirie|ship|2}}) Henry Hay ( – ) on 23 April 1840<!--Hay seems to have dropped off the map in mid 1867; described as "the late" in November 1870--> *Hiram Telemachus Mildred (28 April 1823 – 21 August 1892) preceded his father to South Australia on the ''Rapid''. He was elected to the City Council, was later Harbourmaster at Port Augusta.<ref name=heads/> *Urania Harriet Mildred (30 December 1824 – 30 August 1896) married John Varley S.M. (22 October 1830 – 9 June 1887) of Kapunda on 15 April 1854. *William Henry Mildred (1837–1838) *Henry Hay Mildred (17 August 1839 – 25 December 1920) represented East Torrens from March 1870 to December 1871.
He died at the home of Dr. Mortimer, Port Adelaide.
Henry's brother George Mildred (c. 1808 – 13 December 1875), arrived in South Australia in 1836 on William Light's ship ''Rapid'' with nephew Hiram and settled on Kangaroo Island.
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