T. G. Waterhouse

Thomas Greaves Waterhouse JP (22 January 1811, Conisborough,[1] Yorkshire – 9 October 1885, London) was a businessman, investor and philanthropist in early colonial South Australia arriving soon after the start of official settlement.

Aged 29, he came to the colony of South Australia (established in 1836),[4] on the Lysander, landing at Port Adelaide on 6 September 1840.

[2] Prior to their departure for England, Mr & Mrs Waterhouse were given a farewell breakfast in the Pirie Street Wesleyan Lecture Hall; the Chairman of the District, the Rev.

"He" (Watsford) "held that the gentleman should hold the reins, but the good wife would always sit by his side, and make him drive just where she chose.

At the time of the exodus to the Victorian gold rush 1851–56 T. G. invested heavily in land in the Adelaide city centre, and subsequently continued to increase his holdings so that, by the time of his death, a considerable proportion of the city's freehold land belonged to his estate.