Edward Andrew Devonshire Opie (1843–1923)

Born Launceston, Tasmania, died Adelaide, South Australia. He was an "old scholar" of Adelaide Educational Institution and clerk to George Witherage Cotton (1821-1892) a land dealer and Member of the South Australian Legislative Council, who championed a scheme to put working men onto smallholdings on which they could carry out agricultural production. In 1879 Cotton retired from real estate, leaving the business to Opie and his son George Samuel Cotton (ca.1858-1918).