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Frederick James Sargood (c1805-1873) |
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| Sargood migrated to Australia from England with his wife and six children in 1850. He established the wholesale soft goods business Sargood, King & Co., a business which thrived and expanded to other colonies. A political radical, and defender of the early closing movement, Sargood was a member of the Legislative Council for Melbourne in 1853-56, during which time he became a trustee of the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute, and registered owner of the Institute’s first land. He was the first chairman of the Prahran Municipal Council 1856-1858. He was also a member of the Legislative Assembly for St. Kilda in |
1856-57. Sargood returned to England around 1867 and passed away there in 1873. Sargood’s son, Sir Frederick Thomas Sargood, was a career politician, and is noted as the builder of ‘Rippon Lea’ in Elsternwick. (Source: Stonnington Archives. This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced for other purposes without the prior permission of the Stonnington Local History Archives.) |
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