F. H. Faulding & Co

F. H. Faulding & Co was a pharmaceutical company founded in Adelaide, Australia, in 1845 by Francis Hardey Faulding (23 August 1816 – 19 November 1868), a native of Swinefleet, near Goole in Yorkshire, son of Francis Faulding, a surgeon.

Francis Hardey Faulding arrived in Sydney on the Nabob in February 1842, in the midst of an economic slump. He travelled on the brig Dorset to Adelaide in May, where he weathered the slump, and opened a pharmacy at 5 Rundle Street on 9 May 1845. The pharmacy flourished, so he purchased a warehouse in Clarence Place in the city and transferred the manufacturing and wholesale arms of the business there.

In 1861 he entered into partnership with Luther Scammell (1826–1910). Scammell, also a Yorkshireman, had received medical training at Guy's Hospital and arrived in Adelaide in 1849 to practice in the Burra mines, then subsequently set up business in Port Adelaide.

Faulding had numerous other interests: In 1847 he was one of the founders of the South Australian Institute (another was business competitor William Bickford (1815–1850)). On 16 December 1864 he was elected councillor for the Hindmarsh ward of the Adelaide City Council. He was a director of the Bank of Adelaide and trustee of the Savings Bank of South Australia.

On 16 September 1852 he married Eliza Macgeorge at her home "Urr Brae" later "Urrbrae", the famous home of Peter Waite. (His sister Eliza (1824 – 2 February 1907) had married Thomas Waterhouse a week previously.) In 1857 they left the residence on Stephens Place corner of North Terrace for an extended stay in England. He died without issue in 1868, aged 52 at his mansion "Wooton Lea" near Glen Osmond. On 1 December 1869 the widowed Eliza Faulding married family friend Anthony Forster but they divorced six years later.

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