Burnside

Distinguished and Famous people from Burnside

🏛️ Sir Samuel Davenport

Samuel Davenport made Beaumont House his home after purchasing it in 1855. A politician and horticulturalist, he became closely associated with the development of olive growing and olive oil production in South Australia. The house and its grounds preserve a local setting for those interests, combining domestic life with agricultural experiment. Its earlier resident, Adelaide's first Anglican bishop Augustus Short, had known it as Claremont. Davenport's long association with Beaumont gives Burnside a tangible link to an important chapter in the state's horticultural history.

⚖️ Sir Lawrence Jackson

Sir Lawrence Jackson was born at Dulwich in 1913, before his family moved to Sydney in 1920. A legal career later took him to Perth, where he became a Supreme Court judge, chief justice and chancellor of the University of Western Australia. His inquiry into tertiary education helped prepare the way for a second university in the State. Beyond the bench, he led cricket and heritage organisations. On retiring as chief justice, he joked about catching up on forty years of missed reading. Dulwich is his birthplace, connecting Burnside with a career whose main professional achievements unfolded in Western Australia.

⛪ Tom Reed

Tom Reed was rector of St Theodore’s, Rose Park, from 1944 to 1954. During that period he also served as an army chaplain, became archdeacon of Adelaide and then dean, while pursuing a major study of the poet Henry Kendall. He later became Adelaide’s first Anglican archbishop. His combination of church office and literary scholarship was accompanied by a taste for comic verse and an interest in heraldry and family history. Rose Park’s decade-long parish appointment sits within that busy middle period, before he took responsibility for a growing diocese and helped reshape the Anglican Church’s organisation in South Australia.

✈️ Bill McAloney

Bill McAloney was born at Rose Park in 1910 and trained as a mechanic before entering the RAAF in 1936. At Hamilton the next year he tried to rescue a pilot from a crashed, burning aircraft, sustaining severe injuries before onlookers pulled him unconscious from the flames. The attempt was unsuccessful, but his bravery was recognised with the Albert Medal. After recovering, he continued an engineering career that eventually included command of the engineering squadron at the Aircraft Research and Development Unit, Laverton. Rose Park is his birthplace; the rescue and later technical service took place elsewhere.