Notable South Australians/Frederick Simeon Carus Driffield
Frederick Simeon Carus Driffield,
SIXTH son of the late Rev. C. G. T. Driffield, Vicar of Prescot, Lancashire; born 1825, came out to South Australia in the "Posthumous" in 1849, in partnership with his brother and James H. Parr, with whom, soon after their arrival, he built a flour mill near Woodside; went to the Victorian diggings in 1851, returning in 1853; became Secretary of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society in 1856, which he held for nearly ten years, during which time he started, and brought to a very successful issue, the West Adelaide Building Society; was the manager of the Adelaide Lloyd's, afterwards the Adelaide Insurance Company for eight or ten years, giving it up in 1872, when he became the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Married a daughter of the late Joseph McMinn, by whom he has one daughter and six sons.