included: Justice of the Peace from 1890 to 1893. For over 60 years he was a member of the council of the Chamber of Manufactures, and served both as president and vice-president. For some years he was a member of the Adelaide Hospital Board, resigning in 1913. He was on the committee of the Home for Incurables. He was on the board of the Adelaide Licensing Bench from 1902. For 12 years he served as a member of the Unley Council. He was alderman and councillor on the Glenelg Council. He was a vice-president of the Industrial School for the Blind and Royal Institution for the Blind from its foundation, and of the organising committee for its Great Floral Fair. He was treasurer of Adelaide City Mission until 1902. He was on the board of the Adelaide Benevolent and Strangers' Friend Society. He was on the board of the Belair Inebriate Retreat. He was a life member of the Adelaide Y.M.C.A., and its president from 1914. He was, like his father, a lifelong member of the Church of Christ, originally with the Grote Street Church, then Unley and Glenelg, which were established largely due to his generosity. He donated his property in Unley to the Church of Christ, to assist in establishing Ellerslie College, a Church of Christ school for girls at Magill Road, Magill. For over 30 years he supported Church missions to India and China. He was a generous supporter of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Mrs Burford was a prominent member of the Wattle Blossom League (later Wattle Day League) and held an annual function at "Monomeith", the Burfords' summer residence at Ashton. Recreation He was a life member of the South Australian Cricket Association and a member of the East Adelaide Cricket Club. In his later years he was a serious bowls player. He was a keen yachtsman, was a member of the Holdfast Bay Sailing Club (and Vice-commodore in 1896) and with son F. R. Burford owned the yacht Empress 1894 – 1896. Family of William Burford William married Mary Richardson (c. 1845 – 12 May 1921) on 11 November 1867. She died at their home "Birralee", in Glenelg. Their 53 year marriage produced eleven children, of whom five sons and four daughters survived childhood. All five sons went into the family business: William Henville Burford II (1 November 1868 – 27 May 1947)