Arthur Harvey (Australian politician)

Arthur Harvey (c. 1827 – 25 January 1902) was a politician in the colony of South Australia.

Arthur Harvey was sent to South Australia around 1870 by a consortium of London businessmen who planned to capitalize on the expected increase in the value of land along the route of the proposed railway to Port Darwin. The railway was shelved, but Harvey remained as a speculator and investor. He was secretary of the Euko Mining Company 1867, The Wharf and Land Company, Port Adelaide South Limited in 1878,

In 1878 Harvey and Frederick Estcourt Bucknall (later to be his parliamentary colleague) formed the Grange Land and Investment Company, to develop the suburb of The Grange. In 1881 he and John Brodie Spence formed the East Adelaide Investment Co. Ltd. which laid out the suburb of East Adelaide.

He was a member for West Torrens in the South Australian House of Assembly from April 1884 to April 1887, with F. E. Bucknall as his colleague, and was a supporter of the Colton ministry. Shortly afterwards he suffered financially with the collapse of the land boom.

He was involved in attempts to exploit under-developed copper mines in the Moonta district.

He died at Wellington, New Zealand while visiting his daughter, Mrs. Rhind.

Harvey married ?? (c. 1830 – 7 August 1888); they lived in East Adelaide. Their children included:

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