Frederick Sheppard Grimwade
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Frederick Sheppard Grimwade (10 November 1840 – 4 August 1910) was a businessman and Victorian member of parliament.[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040343b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography entry]
Biography
Born in Norfolk, England, Grimwade arrived in Victoria in 1863. In 1867 he bought a pharmaceutical company and renamed it Felton Grimwade & Co.,{{cite web|url=http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/asaw/biogs/A001045b.htm |title=Felton Grimwade & Co - Corporate entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science |publisher=Austehc.unimelb.edu.au |date= |accessdate=2018-03-14}} 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.
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.Geoffrey Blainey, Black Kettle & Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia, Penguin Books Australia Ltd., Vic., 2004.
Legacy
Frederick Grimwade was buried in St Kilda Cemetery on 5 August 1910.{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10449836?searchTerm=Frederick%20Grimwade%20funeral%201910&searchLimits= |title=Trove |newspaper=Argus |publisher=Nla.gov.au |date= 5 August 1910|accessdate=2018-03-14}} His mansion, "Harleston" (1875), was later donated by his family to Melbourne Grammar School and renamed Grimwade House.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mgs.vic.edu.au/about/mgs_about_history_grim.php |title=Melbourne Grammar School : About Us : History : Grimwade House |access-date=12 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829101822/http://www.mgs.vic.edu.au/about/mgs_about_history_grim.php |archive-date=29 August 2007 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} 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.
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Category:Victoria (state) state politicians
Category:Members of the Victorian Legislative Council
Category:English emigrants to colonial Australia
Category:19th-century Australian politicians
Category:20th-century Australian politicians
Category:19th-century Australian businesspeople