George Frederick Claridge

George Frederick Claridge (24 October 1852 – 27 April 1931) was a South Australian businessman and philanthropist, longtime chairman of the Home for Incurables.

Her parents were early colonists of South Australia who had prospered and were on a return visit to England when the couple married.

[1] After leaving school he served four years' apprenticeship with Palmer & Tolley's drapery shop at 55 Rundle Street, then his father's business, Claridge & Sons, a general store in Auburn.

He became one of the town's leading citizens, serving as mayor for two years and founding a local branch of the District Trained Nursing Society.

In 1900 they sold the Port Pirie business and Claridge moved to the city, residing in Burnside, later at Kent Town, and for the last nine or ten years in Gilberton.