Political families of South Australia

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This is a list of related persons who have held positions in the two South Australian houses of parliament or represented South Australia in Canberra. It includes some notes on people with identical surnames but no clear family connection.

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Note: The following abbreviations have been used below:
MHA = South Australian House of Assembly
MLC = South Australian Legislative Council, including original unicameral parliament (1840–56)
MHR = (Federal) House of Representatives
Indented entries indicate a son or daughter unless otherwise noted.

Angas

Bagot

  • John Bagot (1849–1910) (grandson of Charles) MHA 1884–87
  • John Tuthill Bagot (1819–1870) ("nephew" of Charles) MHA 1857–65; MLC 1866–70; described as his nephew, but actually more distantly related.

Baker

Jacob Hagen (c. 1810–1870), MLC from 1843–51 was a brother-in-law.

Bakewell

Bardolph

Basedow

Blyth

Brookman

Butler

their great-grandson and grandson respectively

Castine

Cooke

Corcoran

Cowan

  • Sir John Cowan (1866–1953) MLC (Southern Districts) 1910–44

Darling

Dashwood

Davenport

Dawkins

Downer

Duncan

Dunn

George Alexander Dunn was not closely related, nor was Henry Peter Kestel Dunn.

Dutton

Queensland politician Charles Dutton (1834–1904), and his great, great grandson Peter Dutton appear not to be related to this family.

Everard

Giles

Glyde

Any relation to Lavington Glyde (1825–1890) MHA for East Torrens 1857–1860, Yatala 1860–1875, Victoria 1877–1884 ?

Goldsworthy

Gordon

Grainger

Hall

Hart

Hawke

  • Bob Hawke (1929–2019), Prime Minister of Australia 1983–1991

(James Renfrey Hawke (25 September 1862 – 12/13 September 1930) and Elizabeth Ann Hawke née Pascoe (31 December 1862 – 27 December 1946) of Kapunda were parents of Albert Hawke and Clem Hawke (1898–1989), father of Bob Hawke).

Hawker

Hill

Henning

Homburg

Hussey

Jelley

Kelly

Kingston

Lake

Lindsay

(Arthur Fydell Lindsay, MHA for Encounter Bay on three occasions, appears to be unrelated.)

McLachlan

Mildred

Milne

Morphett

Newland

David Wark MLA for Murray 1857–62 had a tenuous relationship with the Newlands: his son James Keeling Wark (c. 1847–1886) married Mary Newland (1854–1942), a niece of Simpson Newland, and David Wark's wife Catherine/Catharine? née Keeling (–1859) was a sister of Ridgway William Newland's second wife Martha née Keeling (1797–1870).

(John Newland MHA for Burra Burra 1906–12 and Senator for South Australia, was not related — his birth name (later resumed) was Newlands.)

Pearce

It is not likely that James Pearce (MHA for Light 1870–1875 then Wooroora, and MLC 1877–1881) was a relative.

Price

Playford

Randell

Riddoch

Rudall

Sandford

Shannon

Solomon

Saul Solomon (1836–1929) MLA for East Torrens 1887–90, when he defeated Thomas Playford, was not a close relation.

Stirling

Stow

Vardon

Venning

Verran

von Doussa

Brothers

Weatherill

White

Williams

Wilson

Wright

Young

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