[1] Stock was one of five children who with their widowed mother sailed to South Australia aboard Statesman, arriving in February 1850.
[3] He was admitted to the South Australian Bar in June 1871, and was three times Mayor of Glenelg in the late 1870s.
In June 1892, on the accession to power of the Holder Ministry, Stock was appointed Attorney-General.
[6][3] On 23 November 1913, Stock died at a private hospital in North Adelaide after a long illness.
[2] His widow Mary Stock (previously Haigh, née Spicer) was a prominent worker for the Cheer-Up Society.