The Hundred of McCallum is a cadastral
hundred of the
County of Buckingham, centered on the rural locality of
McCallum and the
Ngarkat
The Ngarkat is a recorded title of a tribal group from South Australia. The Ngarkat lands had linked the mallee peoples of Victoria and South Australia to the river peoples of the Murray River Murraylands. Ngarkat language has been loosely groupe ...
area in
South Australia.
It was proclaimed by Governor
Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, KCMG (2 March 1890 – 17 November 1969) was a British politician and Governor of South Australia from 12 August 1939 until 26 April 1944.
The only child of James Charles Barclay-Harvey, of Dinnet House, Aberd ...
in 1939 and named for
Thomas McCallum
Thomas McCallum (17 March 1860 – 20 April 1938) was a politician in South Australia.
History
McCallum was born at Langhorne's Creek a son of John McCallum of "Ballindown", and was educated at Glenelg Grammar School for a year, then under a pr ...
, member of the
South Australian parliament upper house and pastoral pioneer in the Ngarkat area.
References
McCallum
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