Thomas Bewes Strangways

Thomas Bewes Strangways (23 July 1809 – 23 February 1859), generally called "Bewes Strangways" and "T. Bewes Strangways", was an explorer, early settler and Colonial Secretary of South Australia.

Strangways was the second son of Henry Bull Strangways of Shapwick, Somerset, England, and Elizabeth Bewes, sister of Thomas Bewes, MP for Plymouth.

He and his brother Giles E. Strangways arrived in the new colony on with Governor John Hindmarsh

Strangways died in Glenelg, South Australia His widow, an invalid, went to live with Henry Strangways, then with Mrs. B Clark at Childers Street, North Adelaide in an arrangement which has the appearance of protective custody. In 1865 her nephew, Mr. C Fowler, a Miss Fowler, and a sister-in-law Mrs Lorimer, sought a writ of habeas corpus against them, claiming that her family and friends had been denied access to her. As a result, Mrs Strangways was taken in Rounsevell's carriage to Mr Fowler's home "Elderslie" at Woodside, where she died some eighteen years later.