Career
Henry Bardolph (ca1854 – 22 June 1933) and Mary Bardolph (née Taggart) had five sons, and lived at Manly, New South Wales, where they ran a refreshment room or wine Barometer They moved to Victoria, where two sons (Donald Francis Bardolph and Harold Travers Bardolph) died of pneumonic influenza within a few days of each other in the epidemic of 1919, aged 31 and 28 respectively. The family moved to Adelaide around 1919.
Henry set up in business as building contractor, notably responsible for the Unley Oval grandstand.
Their youngest son, (Clement Patrick) Charles Bardolph, died in Adelaide in September 1926 aged 29 years. Ken was the second youngest.
Neither was elected. In January 1930 both brothers contested the A.L.P. plebiscite to select candidates for the upcoming State elections.
Language Labor made a clean sweep of the three-member Adelaide in the House of Assembly in 1933. In an effort to reclaim members lost to Language Labor and the Parliamentary Labor Party, the A.L.P. rescinded all expulsions in 1934.
Eventually, in 1941, Ken was elected to a Central Number.1 seat on the Legislative Council, which he retained until his death. In 1946, by a narrow margin, he was sacked from the Trades and Labor Council on the grounds he was not a bona fide organiser of the Confectioners" Union.
This despite the fact he had been delegate of the Council over many years and its president for two years.