Frederick Estcourt Bucknall

He gained approval as a Licensed Victualler and built the South Australian Club Hotel in St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide near the site of his boatshed.While they were away the land boom turned to bust, and with the failure of the Commercial Bank of South Australia in 1886, he lost much of his fortune[4] and was forced to relinquish his mansion to the AMP Society and find employment in the office of E. Benda and Co. of Grenfell Street.Bucknall entered Parliament as a member for West Torrens on 8 April 1881[6] as a colleague of W. H. Bean, and was elected for another three years in 1884 with Arthur Harvey (died 25 January 1902) with a break 1885–1886 while he visited England for his health.[3] On 1 October 1874[8] he married Rosa Haussen (née Catchlove) (7 December 1840[8] – 23 November 1899[9]), the widow of brewer Henry Herman Haussen (1830–1870);[10] her children by her first husband included: Children by her marriage to Bucknall were three daughters and a son, born in Adelaide, South Australia Rosa married one more time, to John Huxtable Wesley Perryman[9] (c. 1837 – 1923) and moved to Mount Magnet, Western Australia.By the terms of their father's will, the children of H. H. Haussen were very well provided for[15] and were prominent in business and society, while those of F. E. Bucknall shared their parents' straitened circumstances, and have lapsed into obscurity.