Seth Ferry
Seth "The Master" Ferry (25 May 1839 – 20 October 1932) was a prominent rider, dealer, owner and trainer of racehorses in South Australia. Biography Seth Ferry was born at "Providence House", Ponders End, Lower Edmonton, Middlesex, where his parents John Mattinson Ferry and Mary Ferry, née Beckett, ran a school, and had a family of three daughters and four sons, of which Seth was the second. Other reports have him born in Enfield, Middlesex, purportedly within the sound of Bow Bells, Ferry, senior, being dissatisfied with his financial position, health, and life in London, and having seen Allan Bell (c.1817–1894) of Mount Barker's prize-winning wheat at The Great Exhibition of 1851, decided on a new life for his family in the young colony. They sailed to South Australia aboard Derwent, and after a voyage of four months arrived in Adelaide in March 1853. Their first billet was in Norwood, where Mrs. Ferry and her daughter established a school for young ladies near the Maid and Magpie Hotel, which they dubbed "Providence House". Their next move was to Woodside, where Ferry senior founded a timber yard "at a little above ... Adelaide prices", and offered for sale roadside allotments subdivided