William Everard (South Australian politician)

William Everard (December 1819 – 24 August 1889) was a South Australian businessman and politician.

Everard was the son of Dr. Charles George Everard M.P. (1794 – 30 March 1876) and his wife Catherine (1786 – 21 December 1866), originally of London.

The family, which included his mother and brothers Charles John Everard (ca.1822 – 22 July 1892) and James George (died 3 May 1840, aged 15), arrived in Adelaide on the ship Africaine under Captain John Finlay Duff in 1836. His father was one of the first eighteen elected to South Australia's unicameral Legislative Council in 1839.

By 1843 William and his brother Charles were farming a jointly-owned property in Myponga, while Dr. C. G. Everard was developing his properties "Ashford" and "Marshfield", to the west and east of the Bay Road respectively, and comprising much of the land between Keswick and Glenelg. Dr. Everard was the first colonist to grow wheat, on one of his City selections on Morphett Street.

He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1863 He was a member of

Everard was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly for the district of Encounter Bay on 6 March 1865, succeeding John Lindsay, having for his colleague David Sutherland.

At the general elections of 1868 Mr. Everard was returned for the same constituency, this time with Neville Blyth

Everard did not stand for the sixth Parliament, then was returned to his old seat in December 1871, with the Hon. Thomas Reynolds as his colleague. He was unseated on petition in February 1872 by the Court of Disputed Returns, which ended his connection with the Assembly.

Fourteen months later Everard was elected a member of the Legislative Council in company with Sir Henry Ayers, and Messrs. Alexander Hay, T. Hogarth, J. Fisher, R. A. Tarlton, and Walter Duffield, and continued as one of the eighteen members comprising the Upper House, who were then returned by the whole province acting as one electoral district, until he vacated his seat on 1 August 1878. While a member of the Legislature Mr. Everard served in three Ministries:

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