Ian Hannaford

Ian Hannaford
Personal information
Date of birth (1940-03-06)6 March 1940
Place of birth Riverton, South Australia
Date of death 10 March 2022(2022-03-10) (aged 82)
Height 192 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 92 kg (203 lb)
Position(s) Ruckman, forward
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1958–1964 Port Adelaide 123 (108)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
1958–1964 South Australia 17
Career highlights

Club

Representative

Source: AustralianFootball.com

Ian Geoffrey Hannaford (6 March 1940 – 10 March 2022) was an Australian rules footballer and architect.

Early life

Ian Geoffrey Hannaford[1] was born on 6 March 1940,[2] to Claude and Vera (née Hoare). He was the eldest of four siblings, the other three being brothers Donald and artist Robert Hannaford, and sister, Kay. He grew up on his family's farm in the Gilbert Valley near Riverton, South Australia, and attended Prince Alfred College in Adelaide for his final two years of high school.[3]

Football

Hannaford played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the SANFL,[4] retiring at the young age of 24 in order to train as an architect. He was named by The Advertiser as among Port Adelaide's 150 greatest players in the club's first 150 years.[5][2]

Architecture

Hannaford was also an architect, who was responsible for the design of Rundle Mall in 1976, as well as private residences, some of them in modernist style inspired by Mies van der Rohe. He designed the Victor Richardson Gates at Adelaide Oval, as well as apartment buildings and resorts.[5][6]

Death

Hannaford died on 10 March 2022, four days after his 82nd birthday.[2]

References

  1. ^ "A celebration of the Life of Ian Geoffrey Hannaford". Facebook. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Turner, Matt (10 March 2022). "Triple Port premiership player, renowned architect dies". adelaidenow. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  3. ^ Hannaford, Robert (14 March 2007). "OH 812 - Full transcript of an interview with Robert Hannaford by Rob Linn for the Eminent Australians Oral History Project" (PDF). Eminent Australians Oral History Project - JD Somerville Oral History Collection (Interview). Interviewed by Linn, Rob. State Library of South Australia. p. 53. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  4. ^ "Australian Football - Ian Hannaford - Player Bio". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  5. ^ a b "Architect who transformed centre of Adelaide dies aged 82". ArchitectureAU. 11 March 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  6. ^ Elton, Jude; O'Neil, Bernard (1 September 2014). "Victor Richardson Gates". SA History Hub. History Trust of South Australia. Retrieved 3 August 2024.


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