Charles Kimber

Charles Kimber (15 January 1826 – 29 August 1913) was an orchardist, flour miller and politician in colonial South Australia.

Charles was born in Newbury, Berkshire, and arrived in South Australia on the John Woodhall on 5 January 1849.

He began as a storekeeper in Burra, then on Yorke Peninsula, and also tried farming in the vicinity of Mintaro.

In 1864 he took over Frederick Hannaford's flour mill in Clare, where the Town Hall was later built.

[3] He suffered a great deal of pain in his later years, and strangled himself with the string from his pyjamas to end the agony.