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The Honourable
Sir John Newlands
KCMG, CBE
President of the Australian Senate
In office
1 July 1926 – 13 August 1929
Preceded byThomas Givens
Succeeded byWalter Kingsmill
Senator for South Australia
In office
1 July 1913 – 20 May 1932
Personal details
Born(1864-08-04)4 August 1864
Nairnshire, Scotland
Died20 May 1932(1932-05-20) (aged 67)
Glenelg, South Australia
NationalityScottish Australian
Political partyLabor (1913–16)
National Labor (1916–17)
Nationalist (1917–31)
UAP (1931–32)
OccupationRailway worker

Sir John Newlands KCMG, CBE (4 August 1864 – 20 May 1932), also known as John Newland, was a Scottish-born Australian politician.[1]

Born in Cawdor,[2] Nairnshire, Newlands was the son of Andrew Newlands, agricultural labourer, and his wife Ann, née Stunar.[1] Newlands was educated in Croy, Scotland before migrating to New South Wales, Australia in 1883. He married Theresa Glassey on 27 February 1884 in Adelaide, and that year began to use Newland as his surname.[1] He became a railway worker, also in 1884, initially as a lamp cleaner[1] and porter. While a conductor on the Broken Hill express, he and a fellow-conductor developed a gambling system that so impressed a group of mining magnates that they bankrolled a trip for the two to Monte Carlo. Fortune eluded them however, and they returned to Adelaide with a new respect for mathematics.[3] He was elected chairman of the District Council of Terowie, when after 13 years[2] he was obliged to resign from the railways. He helped found in 1908 the Railway Officers' Association,[4] a trade union of which he was appointed general secretary, a position he held until his resignation in 1913.[5]

In November 1906 Newland was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as the Labor member for Burra Burra.[1] In February 1912 he lost his marginal seat in the 1912 state election,[6] but was elected to the Australian Senate in the 1913 federal election as a Labor Senator for South Australia. He left the Labor Party in the 1916 split over conscription, joining the Nationalist Party. He served as Chairman of Committees from 1923 to 1926.[7][8][1] On 1 July 1926, he was appointed President of the Senate, succeeding Thomas Givens. He held the presidency until 13 August 1929, when he was succeeded by Walter Kingsmill. He was knighted in 1927, and reverted his name to Newlands. He had several periods of convalescence due to ill health[1] and died in 1932 in Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia, while his term was still unexpired. No appointment was made.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Grainger, G. (1988). "Newland, Sir John (1864–1932)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Death of Sir John Newlands". The Narracoorte Herald. 24 May 1932. p. 2. Retrieved 4 December 2016 – via Trove.
  3. ^ "Out Among the People". The Advertiser. 21 January 1942. p. 9. Retrieved 5 December 2016 – via Trove.
  4. ^ "Topics of the Day". The Advertiser. 28 November 1908. p. 8. Retrieved 4 December 2016 – via Trove.
  5. ^ "Railway Officers' Association". The Register. 17 October 1913. p. 3. Retrieved 4 December 2016 – via Trove.
  6. ^ "Sir John Newlands". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  7. ^ "NEWLANDS, Sir John (1864–1932)". The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  8. ^ "Appendix 3―Deputy Presidents and Chairmen of Committees (1901–2009)". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  9. ^ Carr, Adam (2012). "Australian Election Archive". Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive. Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 7 July 2012.

 

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