Ben Rounsevell

One of his first business ventures, in conjunction with his half-brother John, was to supply tens of thousands of wooden sleepers for the new railway to Burra, South Australia.

Rounsevell claimed to be the first to run a plough on Yorke's Peninsula, back in his father's stage-coach days, at Green's Plains.

Returning to South Australia after an extended stay in Britain, he began farming at his property, Corryton Park,[1] and was one of the first in the State to use superphosphate, with excellent results, though only on his garden.

It remained for Professor Lowrie to prove its application to South Australian farming, though Jack Cudmore had used "super" on Yorke's Peninsula with excellent results.

[3] Rounsevell was Commissioner of Public Works from 19 August 1890 to 6 January 1892[3] under Playford, when he introduced the Happy Valley reservoir scheme.

Rounsevell was again Commissioner of Public Works briefly from 1 to 8 December 1899 in the eight-day ministry of Vaiben Louis Solomon[3] when he purchased the Holdfast Bay Railway Company for the State.

He was one of Adelaide's first greyhound breeders and racers,[5] having extensive kennels at Corryton Park, where the South Australian Coursing Club held its bi-annual race meetings.

In 1875 he took over "Tremere" (now demolished), the residence his father had owned at Glenelg, and was involved in local affairs, serving as mayor from 1880 to 1882 and 1912 to 1913.

Louisa Ann Carvosso's sister Jane Anna Earle was the mother of feminist Bessie Rischbieth OBE.