| 词条 | Benjamin Nash |
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Benjamin Nash (5 March 1829 – 19 April 1890) was a tailor and politician in colonial South Australia. He was born in Birmingham and emigrated to Melbourne in 1857 but in July, after only a few months in the gold diggings, moved to Adelaide and set up a tailoring business in Rundle Street. He was prominent in the Voluntary Militia, and from 1858 to 1865 served with the West Adelaide Company under Colonel George Mayo. In 1859 he successfully tendered for the supply of the first uniforms for the Volunteer Military Force. In 1878 he was elected to the Walkerville District Council, and became its chairman.[1] He was elected to the seat of West Torrens and sat from April 1887 to April 1890. He failed in his bid to be reelected, and died of kidney failure ten days later. He was buried in West Terrace Cemetery's Catholic section. He had converted to that faith around two years before his death. He made a gift of an organ to St. Laurence's, his small local church.[2] FamilyHe married Ann Ide; they lived at Sturt Street, Adelaide and had eight children:
On 14 February, 1874, Benjamin Nash married Clara Francis Barnes (1851 - 1950); they lived in Nashville Tc, Medindie Benjamin had a twin brother Joseph, in America, who also died uremia. References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26749910 |title=The Advertiser |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=21 April 1890 |accessdate=22 September 2015 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Nash, Benjamin}}2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164857346 |title=In Memoriam. |newspaper=The Southern Cross |location=Adelaide |date=25 April 1890 |accessdate=22 September 2015 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162380859 |title=The Machinery Section |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |location=SA |date=11 September 1897 |accessdate=22 September 2015 |page=25 |via=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129112675 |title=Invention of Totalisator |newspaper=The News |location=Adelaide |date=30 April 1929 |accessdate=22 September 2015 |page=8 Edition: Home |via=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^name="Ide Families in Australia" 6. ^name="Ide Families in Australia" 7. ^name="Ide Families in Australia" 8. ^name="Ide Families in Australia" 5 : Members of the South Australian House of Assembly|1829 births|1890 deaths|Burials at West Terrace Cemetery|19th-century Australian politicians |
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