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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2022-06-28 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-03-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007042b.htm person Lewis John CMG AACR2 12 February 1844 25 August 1923 Place of Birth Brighton, South Australia, Australia Place of Death Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia Pastoralist Politician Member of Parliament John Lewis, having run away from home at age 14, spent the next ten years working on outback properties, becoming an expert in bushcraft and on sheep, cattle and horses. In 1872 he was employed as a courier between construction parties for the overland telegraph. Until 1876 he ran pastoral, mining and trading operations at Palmerston (later Darwin) before returning to South Australia. There he established, with partners, a stock and station agency which became one of biggest pastoral companies in South Australia. He also acquired extensive land holdings in South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, some in association with Thomas Elder. Lewis was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council for 25 years from 1898. His wider interests included as a member and President of the Horticultural and Floricultural Society, the Aborigines Friends' Association, and the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch. The John Lewis Gold Medal has been awarded by the Branch since 1947. 1898 1902 Career position - Member for Northern District, Legislative Council, South Australia 1899 1902 Career position - President, Horticultural and Floricultural Society 1902 1923 Career position - Member for North-eastern District, Legislative Council, South Australia 1913 1920 Career position - President, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch 1923 1923 Award - Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Lewis, Essington (1881 - 1961) Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch (1885 - )

President 1913 - 1920

 John Lewis Gold Medal, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australia Branch (1947 - )

The Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australia Branch has awarded the Medal since1947

 'Lewis, John', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Lewis, John Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Lewis, John (1844 - 1923) Lewis, John (1844 - 1923) Canberra Australian National University 2023 Obituaries Australia Book Section: Lewis, John (1844 - 1923), pastoralist and politician Kearns, R. H. B. Lewis, John (1844 - 1923), pastoralist and politician Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press 1986 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 93-4