John Findlater Clements (1819 – 2 September 1884) was an Irish-born Australian politician.
He was born in
Balbriggan
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to
Royal Navy
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lieutenant Hanbury Clements and Margaret Ingham. He migrated to
New South Wales
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around 1833 and became a pastoralist, with over 160,000 acres in the
Lachlan River
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area. In 1859 he was elected to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
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for
Bathurst, but he was defeated in 1860. On 8 March 1865 he married Charlotte Palmer, with whom he had four children. Clements died at
Bathurst in 1884.
References
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1819 births
1884 deaths
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
19th-century Australian politicians