John Stokes Bagshaw

John Stokes Bagshaw (15 August 1808 – 1 January 1888) was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery in South Australia.

Career

He was born in Chetwynd, Shropshire, the son of Edward (19 May 1776 – 4 February 1889) and Margaret Bagshaw. He trained as a millwright, engineer and patternmaker and migrated to South Australia in 1838, arriving in the Eden at Port Adelaide in June 1837. He was involved in setting up flour mills at Noarlunga, Port Noarlunga and Encounter Bay. He set up a workshop in Elizabeth Street, Adelaide, making windmills. He invented a winnowing machine which met with some success. His first two sons, John Augustus and Thomas Henry joined the business. The business expanded into Crowther Street.

In 1843 John Ridley commissioned him to build the prototype of his famous "stripper" reaping machine. His winnowing machines, corn crushers, chaff cutters and churns won prizes at the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Show in 1867. He also built baggers, elevators and mill machinery at his "Pioneer" works.

His son John Augustus joined the business in 1852 and proved his father's equal in design and manufacture of farm machinery, taking out several patents, and taking control of the company.

In 1893 the company demonstrated a greatly improved disk threshing header.[1]

In 1910 a fire in the Adelaide factory forced the implementation of a long-planned move to Victoria Street, Mile End between King Street and Hilton Road, once a wheat paddock. In 1911 Thomas H. Bagshaw's two sons Edward G. Bagshaw and Thomas Stokes Bagshaw, took over management of the company. In 1920, with the death of John A. Bagshaw, Vincent A. Zed (1885 – 15 August 1930), a longtime employee, was appointed governing director.[2] In 1920 Bagshaws bought the Balaklava business of Illman and Sons. In 1924 the company was taken over by J. H. Horwood and Co. Ltd., and continued to operate as Horwood, Bagshaw Ltd.

Interests

He helped found the Ancient London Order of Oddfellows in Adelaide.[3]

He helped found Trinity Church, later named Holy Trinity Church, on North Terrace, Adelaide.

He was elected to the Adelaide Municipal Council in 1870 and served as councillor for six years.[3]

He was a member of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society.[4]

Family

His only brother, William Edward Bagshaw jr. (ca.1801? 1807? – 2 February 1889), was married to Ann (died 24 September 1873) and migrated to South Australia around 1860.

In 1836 he married Jane Dale (ca.1811 – 27 February 1884); they arrived in South Australia on the Eden on 24 June 1838 with a daughter who was born in UK ca.1837 and presumably died while young. Their home was "Chetwynd" in Franklin Street. Their children were:

References

  1. "Bagshaw's Header.". South Australian Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 11 February 1893. p. 1 Supplement: Supplement to the South Australian Register. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  2. "Australian Commercial Houses". The Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 7 April 1923. p. 18. Retrieved 14 June 2012. This article contains much interesting background detail.
  3. 1 2 "The Late J. S. Bagshaw". South Australian Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 2 January 1888. p. 5. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  4. "Royal Agricultural Society". South Australian Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 28 January 1888. p. 6. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  5. "Concerning People". The Register (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 26 September 1918. p. 7. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
  6. The disparity of their ages may have prompted fellow-Unitarian Catherine Helen Spence to write Hugh Lindsay's Guest, serialised in The Observer in 1867.
  7. Hasenohr, E. W. H. Gray – a pioneer colonist of South Australia Adelaide 1977 ISBN 0 9596673 0 X
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