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William Bundey (born 1826) was Mayor of Adelaide, South Australia from 1883 to 1886 and a long serving member of the South Australian Legislative Assembly.

Not to be confused with Sir William Henry Bundey (30 January 1838 – 6 December 1909) was an Australian politician and judge, Attorney-General of South Australia from 27 September 1878 to 10 March 1881.

 

William Bundey, Mayor of Adelaide,

BORN January 26, 1826, at Beaulieu, in the New Forest Hampshire.
He served his apprenticeship in London to a carpenter and builder, and shortly after completion of his time left for South Australia. William Bundey and his young wife Betsy (Elizabeth) emigrated to the South Australian Colony in 1848 on the Poictiers, one of 272 English emigrants in the steerage of this immigrant ship. where he arrived on November 19, 1848. He worked at his trade for some time,
and on the gold diggings breaking out visited Victoria, where he was fairly successful.
He returned to Adelaide and commenced business on his own account as a builder. He has
been for some time an active member of the Order of O.F., M.U., and held the office of Grand Master in South Australia in 1856.
In 1867 he was one of the founders of the City Permanent Building Society, and was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors at the first meeting of this society, which office he has held since without interruption.
Mr. Bundey entered the City Council in December 1861, when he was elected Councillor for Robe Ward. He was re-elected to this office in 1864, and again in 1866, retiring from that office in December 1868. In 1881 he again entered the City Council, being elected to fill the office of Alderman on December 2 of that year. This office he held until December 1883, when he was elected Mayor of the City, and was re-elected Mayor in the following December for a second year of office. During the time he has been connected with the City Council, the Town Hall has been erected, the sewerage of the city has been effected, the water supply vastly improved, and the rates on the two last greatly reduced, the
Park Lands have been planted and wonderfully improved, and the city has become a model of cleanliness and beauty.
Of affable manners and kindly disposition, Mr. Bundey commands the esteem of a large section of the community.

Also see http://members.multimania.co.uk/smithread/WilliamBundey_Life.pdf

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