{{Short description|Australian politician (1847–1913)}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}

{{Infobox officeholder |name = William Frederick Stock |image = | caption = W.F. Stock in 1892 |office = Attorney-General of South Australia |premier = Frederick Holder |term_start={{start date|1892|6|21 |df=y}} |term_end={{end_date|1892|10|15 |df=y}} |predecessor=Robert Homburg |successor=Robert Homburg |office1 = Member of the South Australian House of Assembly for Electoral district of Sturt |term_start1= {{start date|1887|4|2 |df=y}} |term_end1 ={{end_date|1893|4|14 |df=y}} |alongside1=John Jenkins |birth_date = {{birth date|1847|7|28|df=y}} |birth_place = Clifton St Andrew, Gloucestershire, England |death_date = {{death date and age|1913|11|23|1847|7|28|df=y}} |death_place = North Adelaide, South Australia | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Clara Graham|16 April 1870|1 February 1888 |end=her death}} * {{marriage|Mary Haigh (née Spicer)|12 May 1909}} }} | children = 3 daughters }}

'''William Frederick Stock''', M.P., (28 July 1847<ref name="SA parl">{{Cite SA-parl |pid=3829 |name=William Frederick Stock |former=yes |access-date=21 February 2025}}</ref> – 23 November 1913)<ref name=Reg>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57138101 |title=Deaths |newspaper=South Australian Register |date=24 November 1913 |access-date=26 August 2014 |page=6 |via=Trove}}</ref> was a South Australian lawyer and politician, briefly Attorney-General of South Australia in 1892.<ref name=Mennell>{{cite Australasia|Stock, Hon. William Frederick}}</ref>

==History== 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.<ref name=parish> {{cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XT9F-9R4 |work=England, Bristol Parish Registers, 1538-1900", index, FamilySearch |access-date=1 November 2014 |title=William Frederick Stock, 1847}}</ref> Stock was one of five children who with their widowed mother sailed to South Australia aboard ''Statesman'', arriving in February 1850.<ref name=personal/> He was educated at Adelaide Educational Institution<ref name=personal>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5385623 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Advertiser |date=24 November 1913 |access-date=10 July 2018 |page=14 |via=Trove}}</ref> and St Peter's College, Adelaide, and in England.<ref name=Mennell/> 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.<ref name=Mennell/> In 1886 he entered into a limited form of partnership with his nephew Sydney Talbot Smith as Stock & Talbot Smith.<ref>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=P. A. |last=Howell |title=Smith, Sydney Talbot (1861–1948) |id2=smith-sydney-talbot-11726 |year=2002 |access-date=10 July 2018}}</ref>

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.<ref name="SA parl" /><ref name=Mennell/>

On 23 November 1913, Stock died at a private hospital in North Adelaide after a long illness.<ref name=Reg/>

==Family== William Frederick Stock (c. August 1847 – 23 November 1913) married Clara Graham (1 June 1846 – 1 February 1888) on 16 April 1870;<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28590973 |title=Married |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |date=22 April 1870 |access-date=16 February 2025 |page=2 |via=Trove}}</ref> their children were:

* Kathleen Clara Stock (26 January 1871<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/92274508 |title=Births |newspaper=South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail |date=28 January 1871 |access-date=16 February 2025 |page=8 |via=Trove}}</ref> – 1944), married Francis James Roche on 14 November 1891 in Shanghai,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198427099 |title=Marriages |newspaper=Evening Journal |date=31 December 1891 |access-date=16 February 2025 |page=2 |via=Trove}}</ref> and died in Auckland, New Zealand * Stella Denison Stock (12 November 1872 – 29 November 1950), married D'Arcy Talbot Bruce on 22 February 1894 in Surbiton, England<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/53685358 |title=Anglo-Colonial Gossip |newspaper=South Australian Register |date=4 April 1894 |access-date=16 February 2025 |page=6 |via=Trove}}</ref> (div.1902); married George Henry Priest Shanks in 1902 in Kensington, England; and died in Torquay, England * Vivien Grace Stock (7 March 1875 – 13 September 1966), married William Steele (1872 - 1952) on 11 Sep 1897,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/54504375 |title=Marriages |newspaper=South Australian Register |date=14 September 1897 |access-date=16 February 2025 |page=4 |via=Trove}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47418924 |title=Death Of Mr William Steele |newspaper=The Advertiser |date=30 October 1952 |access-date=17 February 2025 |page=4 |via=Trove}}</ref> and died in Goodwood, SA

William Frederick Stock was twice related by marriage to Edwin Thomas Smith, who married his sister, Florence Stock (c. 1837 – 12 February 1862), on 25 June 1857; and then through Smith's second marriage to Elizabeth Spicer (31 May 1846 – 6 June 1911), when Stock married Elizabeth's sister Mary Haigh (née Spicer, ~1853 – 30 August 1917) on 12 May 1909.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/57860032 |title=Marriages |newspaper=The Register |date=19 May 1909 |access-date=16 February 2025 |page=4 |via=Trove}}</ref> Elizabeth and Mary were both daughters of early colonist Edward Spicer.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55637780 |title=Death of Mr. Edward Spicer, a South Australian pioneer |newspaper=The Register |date=8 May 1906 |access-date=16 February 2025 |page=5 |via=Trove}}</ref>

===Tregenna=== William Frederick Stock's mansion "Tregenna" on North East Road, Collinswood, set on {{cvt|4.5|acres|ha}} and attributed to architect Edward Davies, was built in 1899-1900. Following Stock's death in 1913, his widow Mary Stock continued to reside there. During World War I she was a prominent worker for the Cheer-Up Society,<ref name=Personal>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article209768292 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Express and Telegraph |date=31 August 1917 |access-date=3 June 2018 |page=3 |via=Trove}}</ref> and used the grounds of "Tregenna" to hold events such as gymkhanas and fetes for the Red Cross,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59984156 |title=Collinswood |newspaper=The Register |date=8 November 1915 |access-date=16 February 2025 |page=7 |via=Trove}}</ref> as well as for growing vegetables and fruit to supply Cheer-up Hut events for thousands of soldiers.<ref name=Personal />

"Tregenna" was put up for sale in June 1917,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59138915 |title=For Private Sale, "Tregenna" |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=8 June 1917 |access-date=16 February 2025 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> but after Mary Stock's death in August 1917, her daughter from her previous marriage, Alice Hill (née Haigh, 1875 – 28 January 1929) continued to live there with her own family until her own death.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/87453904 |title=Mrs A. H. Hill |newspaper=The Chronicle |date=2 February 1929 |access-date=16 February 2025 |page=47 |via=Trove}}</ref> Alice's daughter May Hill (1 May 1909 – ) continued living on the property, holding gymkhanas for the Adelaide Horse Riding Club<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130859916 |title=All bouts cancelled |newspaper=The Advertiser |date=31 October 1952 |access-date=17 February 2025 |page=20 |via=Trove}}</ref> and other charitable events<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48923647 |title=Musical |newspaper=The Advertiser |date=10 November 1953 |access-date=17 February 2025 |page=10 |via=Trove}}</ref> into the early 1950s.

The property was sold to the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1957<ref>[https://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/house_of_representatives_committees%3Furl%3Dreports/1969/1969_pp11.pdf Report relating to the proposed construction of Sound Broadcasting Studios for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Collinswood, South Australia.] Report No 1/1969. Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works. Retrieved 16 February 2025.</ref> and new buildings in the grounds were constructed for use as studios and broadcasting facilities for the ABS-2 television service for SA, which commenced in 1960. By 1969 other existing ABC facilities in Hindmarsh Square and Norwood were considered inadequate, and the decision was made to consolidate all services at Collinswood. The "Tregenna" mansion was demolished in 1970, and replaced by an 8-storey brutalist building, opened in 1974.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://adelaideaz.com/articles/abc-adelaide-s-channel-2-opens-in-1950-from-tregenna-mansion--joins-abc-radio-in-new-collinswood-building-in-1974 |title=ABC Adelaide Channel 2 opens in 1960 from Tregenna mansion; joins ABC radio in new Collinswood block, 1974 |publisher= Adelaide AZ |date=1 May 2017 |access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> The "Tregenna" name has been commemorated by the naming of the "Tregenna café" within the complex.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.net.au/adelaide/abcstudiotours/8486350 |title=What's behind the doors of your ABC? |publisher= ABC Adelaide |date=1 May 2017 |access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=Robert Homburg}} {{s-ttl|title=Attorney-General of South Australia|years=1892}} {{s-aft|after=Robert Homburg}} {{s-par|au-sa}} {{s-bef | before=Samuel Dening Glyde }} {{s-ttl | title=Member for Sturt | years=1887–1893|alongside= John Jenkins}} {{s-aft | after =Thomas Price}} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stock, William Frederick}} Category:1847 births Category:1913 deaths Category:Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Category:English emigrants to colonial Australia Category:Mayors of places in South Australia Category:Attorneys-general of South Australia Category:British emigrants to the Colony of South Australia