Mitcham, South Australia
Mitcham is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Mitcham.
Created as a village separate from Adelaide, it was ancillary to a sheep station at Brown Hill Creek belonging to the South Australia Company. Prior to British colonisation, the area was inhabited by the Kaurna, an Aboriginal people. A group of about 150 Kaurna formerly camped at "Wirraparinga", now Mitcham reserve.Politics
Mitcham is located in the federal electorate of Boothby and the state electorate of Waite, which both tend to be safe Liberal seats.
It is the seat of the Mitcham Council.
The area is generally affluent.Notable Residents
Theodore Ambrose medical practitioner
Major Rupert Downes surgeon and soldier
Hedley Herbert Finlayson conservationist and mammalogist
John Harvey Finlayson newspaper editor
Laura Margaret Hope medical practitioner
Doris Egerton Jones writer
Ellen Thornber schoolmistress
Joseph Garnett Wood botanistGallery
