Frederick Sheppard Grimwade
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Frederick Sheppard Grimwade (10 November 1840 – 4 August 1910) was a businessman and Victorian member of parliament.[1]
Biography
Born in Norfolk, England, Grimwade arrived in Victoria in 1863. In 1867 he bought a pharmaceutical company and renamed it Felton Grimwade & Co.,[2] which soon became the largest in the colony, prospering well into the next century. Today some of Australia's largest public companies have a lineage going back to his family and businesses.
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Grimwade represented North Yarra Province in the Legislative Council for thirteen years from 1891. He opposed gambling, workers' compensation, old-age pensions and the national harmonization of time zones, but he passionately and successfully advocated for the legalization of cremation.[3]
Legacy
Frederick Grimwade was buried in St Kilda Cemetery on 5 August 1910.[4] His mansion, "Harleston" (1875), was later donated by his family to Melbourne Grammar School and renamed Grimwade House.[5] His country retreat at Somers on the Mornington Peninsula, "Coolart", eventually became a public wetlands reserve.
Grimwade's children included Major General Harold Grimwade, who was a businessman and pharmacist and served as an artillery officer in France during World War I, and Russell Grimwade, who was a chemist, botanist, industrialist and philanthropist.
References
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- ↑ Australian Dictionary of Biography entry
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- ↑ Geoffrey Blainey, Black Kettle & Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia, Penguin Books Australia Ltd., Vic., 2004.
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