Henry Lamshed

Henry Lamshed (11 April 1836 – 13 June 1918) was a farmer and politician in colonial South Australia.
Lamshed was born near Plymouth, England, a descendant of an old Newton Abbott, Devonshire, family. He emigrated to South Australia on the , arriving at Port Adelaide in November 1856, and for several years worked on a farm at McLaren Vale. He established a carrying business at Strathalbyn. He took up land near Maitland when that district was first opened for settlement around 1875, and ran a farm there, "Oakwood", until around 1916, when he retired.
He was a member of the Strathalbyn District Council from 1867 until he closed his carrying business in 1873 to take up farming on Yorke Peninsula. In 1888 he was one of the foundation members of the Yorke's Peninsula District Council. He was elected to the seat of Yorke Peninsula in the South Australian House of Assembly and served from April 1890 to April 1893 as a colleague of Harry Bartlett.
He died after several months' illness and was buried in Maitland.
Family.
Henry Lamshed married Harriet Johnston (c. 1836 – 28 March 1864); they had two sons.
He married again, to Elizabeth Choules (16 May 1838 – 14 June 1897) in November 1864. Her family arrived in S.A. on the "Diadem" in November 1840; she had a previous marriage to William Spanswick. He married a third time, on 24 February 1898, to Sarah Jane Slade (c. 1850 – 18 July 1938) of Alberton. His children included:
Wider South Australian Lamshed family.
The surname "Lamshed", rare elsewhere in Australia, was well known in South Australia around Strathalbyn, Maitland, Kadina and Moonta in the late 19th century.
It appears that over about ten years, most of a large family of Lamshed/Lamshead/Lambshead migrated to South Australia. Most of them lived around Strathalbyn in the 1860s, then moved to the upper Yorke Peninsula area when it was opened for closer settlement in the 1870s.
Henry's father Samuel migrated last, in 1865 on the "Maori" with Samuel's second wife Jane and youngest three children. The surname spelling appears to have been Lambshead or Lamshead in some early South Australian documents, but eventually standardised on Lamshed.
Thomas Lamshed.
Thomas Lamshed (c. 1843 – 28 August 1912) born Bere Alston, Devon, emigrated 1862, lived Strathalbyn, married Elizabeth G(eorge) Bailey (1846 – 20 March 1933), farmed at Echunga, Mount Crawford, Riverton, Maitland, Sunny Vale, retired to Kadina.
Others.
The family of Samuel Lamshed sen. appears to have been: 
Max Lamshed.
The noted journalist and Red Cross official Maxwell Robert Arthur "Max" Lamshed OBE (5 April 1901 – 25 July 1971) was the only child of A. J. Lamshed of Rendelsham, Robe and Mount Gambier. Max's grandfather was the Jacob listed above. Max described Will Lamshed (1894–1917) as a "great-uncle".