Stanley Whitford

Stanley R. Whitford (5 January 1878[a] – 13 December 1959) was a unionist and Labor politician in the State of South Australia.

His parents emigrated from Gunnislake, Cornwall on the Sir Richard Burlington, arriving in Adelaide on 14 February 1856.

[4] but succeeded at the following poll and served 1922–1924, when he was narrowly defeated – by this time he was living in Osmond Street, Adelaide.

He succeeded as the Labor candidate for North Adelaide in the South Australian House of Assembly in 1921 and again in 1924 but was beaten in 1927.

In 1929 he was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council to fill a vacancy left by the death of John Carr.

He had a sister Mary Lavinia "Polly" Whitford (ca.1856 – 18 April 1900), who married (mining) Captain Richard Cowling (ca.1854 – 27 September 1921) in 1877.