Feature Article
Susan Grace Benny (1872–1944)
Susan Grace Benny (1872-1944), local government councillor and housewife, was born on 4 October 1872 in the Crown Inn, Adelaide, daughter of Peter Anderson, a farmer at Morphett Vale, and his wife Agnes Ellen, née Harriot. The Andersons later owned Springfield, a sheep-station on Yorke Peninsula; Grace, whose mother died when she was nine, grew up there. Later she went to a small boarding-school for girls at McLaren Vale, then returned home and taught her younger sisters. On 16 July 1896 at Springfield,...