# Samuel Bakewell > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Samuel_Bakewell > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Samuel_Bakewell.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bakewell > Source revision: 1216792082 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} '''Samuel Bakewell''' (ca.1815 – 22 September 1888) was a wholesale grocer and politician in the young colony of South Australia. ==History== Samuel was born in [Leicester](/source/Leicester), England, and emigrated on the ''Superb'', arriving in South Australia on 11 July 1839. He joined the brothers John and [Thomas Waterhouse](/source/Thomas_Waterhouse)'s grocery business on the corner of Rundle and King William Streets (later Duhst & Biven's) opposite the [Beehive Corner](/source/Beehive_Corner). Around 1850 he opened his own wholesale grocery, "China tea warehouse",{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57292438 |title=Some old Local History |newspaper=[The Register](/source/The_Register_(Adelaide)) |date=20 August 1925 |access-date=14 May 2015 |page=12 |via=Trove}} in Hindley Street (then the premier retail area), and was financially successful. He was elected to the [City of Adelaide](/source/Electoral_district_of_City_of_Adelaide) seat in the [South Australian House of Assembly](/source/South_Australian_House_of_Assembly) and served from March 1860 to November 1862.{{Cite SA-parl |pid=3593 |name=Samuel Bakewell |former=yes |access-date=9 November 2022}} He was a member of the Strangers' Friend Society. ==Family== Samuel Bakewell married Mary Ann Pye (c.1824 – 25 May 1853) at Trinity Church, Adelaide on 24 April 1849. He married again, to her sister Eliza Hannah Pye (c. 1828 – 11 August 1882) at Trinity Church, Adelaide, on 25 July 1854. They had a home at [Strangways Terrace](/source/Strangways_Terrace), [North Adelaide](/source/North_Adelaide). Their children included: *[Elizabeth Webb Bakewell](/source/Elizabeth_Webb_Nicholls) (21 February 1850 – 3 August 1943) married Alfred Richard Nicholls ( – 11 November 1920) on 2 August 1870. Elizabeth was a prominent worker in the Temperance cause. *Agnes Caroline Bakewell (10 November 1851 – 13 May 1913) married Arthur Pomeroy (c. 1848 – 13 January 1931) on 26 June 1873 *Alfred Thomas Bakewell (29 April 1853 – 5 February 1916) married Emma Symonds (14 September 1853 – 28 March 1938) on 29 April 1886 *Sarah Ann Bakewell (16 May 1856 – before 1894) married John Sampson Torr ( – ) on 16 January 1889 *[Edward Howard Bakewell](/source/Edward_Howard_Bakewell) (6 July 1859 – 31 March 1944) was a businessman and chairman of the Metropolitan Tramways Trust, and for whom the Bakewell Bridge, since demolished, was named. *Frederick Arnold Bakewell (6 December 1865 – ) married Esther Stickland (c. 1862 – 21 July 1926) on 21 April 1885 His brother [William Bakewell](/source/William_Bakewell_(Australian_politician)) (ca.1817 – 25 January 1870) was also a politician. Alfred Billing (9 November 1838 – 7 August 1908), the Mount Gambier timber merchant, was a nephew.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77447883 |title=Obituary |newspaper=[The Border Watch](/source/The_Border_Watch) |date=8 August 1908 |access-date=14 May 2015 |page=3 |via=Trove}} == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bakewell, Samuel}} Category:Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Category:Australian businesspeople in retailing Category:Australian grocers Category:1810s births Category:1888 deaths Category:19th-century Australian politicians Category:19th-century Australian businesspeople --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Samuel Bakewell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bakewell) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bakewell?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.