John Newlands (politician)

The Honourable Sir John Newlands
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President of the Australian Senate
In office 1 July 1926 – 13 August 1929
Preceded by	Thomas Givens
Succeeded by	Walter Kingsmill
Senator for South Australia
In office 1 July 1913 – 20 May 1932
Personal details
Born	(1864-08-04)4 August 1864 Nairnshire, Scotland
Died
Nationality	Scottish Australian
Political party	Labor (1913–16) National Labor (1916–17) Nationalist (1917–31) UAP (1931–32)
Occupation	Railway worker

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

Born in Nairnshire, Newlands was the son of Andrew Newlands, agricultural labourer, and his wife Ann, née Stunar. 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. He became a railway worker, also in 1894, initially as a lamp cleaner. He was secretary of the Railway Officers' Association and sat on Terowie District Council.

In November 1906 Newland was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as the Labor member for Burra Burra. In February 1912 he lost his marginal seat in South Australian state election, 1912, but was elected to the Australian Senate in the Australian federal election, 1913 as a Labor Senator for South Australia. He left the Labor Party in the wake of the 1916 split over conscription, joining the Nationalist Party. He was knighted in 1926, and reverted his name to Newlands. 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 had several periods of convalescence due to ill health and died in 1932 in Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia, while his term was still unexpired. No appointment was made.

External links

• Sir John Newlands Given State Funeral Adelaide Advertiser at Trove, National Library of Australia

Parliament of Australia
Preceded by Thomas Givens	President of the Senate 1926–1929	Succeeded by Walter Kingsmill