Frederick Simeon Carus Driffield (1825 – 18 June 1889) was a businessman in the early days of the colony of South Australia.
Instead, he emigrated to South Australia with a younger brother and J. Hamilton Parr in the ship Posthumous, arriving in June 1849.
Shortly after their arrival they built the Knowsley flourmill, near Woodside and supported John Baker in his successful 1851 bid for the South Australian Legislative Council seat of Mount Barker.
They were brought to financial ruin with the exodus to the Victorian diggings and were compelled to join the rush.
[1] An employee, John Creswell, took over the business and also succeeded him (though not immediately) as Secretary of both the Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural Society.