''Culgoa'', ''Kennedy'', ''Sturt'' and ''Leichardt'') and insurance to pastoral management, having runs in the Gawler Ranges and the west of the colony.
In 1869 Lindsay partially removed from the company's activities with the formation of a second company Acraman, Main, & Co., but Acraman, Main, Lindsay, & Co. continued to trade until around 1870.
He was a director of the South Australian Gas Company 1870 to 1873.
In 1873 he opened a business in
Port Darwin and Palmerston as shipping agent and merchant, stocking a small range of foodstuffs and beverages, and agent for Adelaide Marine and Fire Assurance Co. and Mercantile Marine Insurance Co., he may also have acquired a large interest in land in the
Northern Territory
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and gold mining at Yam Creek. The tropics did not agree with his health, and he only stayed up north a few months; he sold up in 1878.
He was Secretary of the National Marine Insurance Co. of South Australia in
Waymouth Street
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from 1877 to 1881 when it folded, and the Adelaide Life Assurance and Guarantee Company from 1879, as secretary then manager, a position he still held when he died.
Politics
He was elected to the
South Australian House of Assembly
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Overview
The House of Assembly was creat ...
for
Encounter Bay
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on 5 April 1860, with the
H. B. T. Strangways as his colleague, and re-elected in 1862 with
David Sutherland, while his brother,
Charles Lindsay was a member for Flinders. He was succeeded in Encounter Bay by
William Everard William Everard may refer to:
*Wiliam Everard (14th century MP) for Norwich (UK Parliament constituency)
*William Everard (Digger) (c. 1602 – d. in or after 1651), early leader of the Diggers
*William Everard (Victorian politician) (1869–1950), ...
. John Lindsay next represented
Sturt from May 1870 to November 1871, with
William Townsend as his colleague. For a brief period (17 October 1861 – 19 February 1862), he was Commissioner of Public Works in the
Waterhouse Ministry, with
H. B. T. Strangways,
Thomas Reynolds and
Randolph Isham Stow
Randolph Isham Stow (17 December 1828 – 17 September 1878) was an English-born Australian Supreme Court of South Australia judge.
Early life
Stow was born in Framlingham, Suffolk, England and baptised at Water Lane-Independent, Bishops S ...
.
Other activities
Lindsay was a charter member of the first golf club founded in Adelaide, in company with
David Murray, John Gordon, J. T. Turnbull, George and Joseph Boothby and around 15 others. An inaugural game of 14 holes was played on the Adelaide Racecourse (later renamed Victoria Racecourse) on 15 May 1870, when Lindsay and John Gordon tied for first place.
He never married, and his only relatives were a sister in Scotland, a brother or nephew in America, and
Charles Lindsay (died 1884), MHA for
Flinders
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Places Antarctica
* Flinders Peak, near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
Australia New South Wales
* Flinders County, New South Wales
* Shellharbour Junction railway station, Shellharbour
* Flinders, New South Wa ...
1862 to 1865. His friends were few, but strong and loyal: Commissioner of Police
William John Peterswald
William John Peterswald was Commissioner of Police of the Colony of South Australia 1882–1896.
Origins
William John von Peterswald was born 28 November 1829 in Jamaica, West Indies, where his father, also named William, managed a large planta ...
,
George Downer and John Hodgkiss.
For the last thirty years of his life his home was an apartment of the Pier Hotel,
Glenelg, with a balcony facing the sea. Until his last illness he never missed a morning dip in the sea, no matter what the weather, and every Sunday he would walk from Glenelg to Hodgkiss's place in Brighton and bring back flowers from his friend's garden.
Recognition
*Point Lindsay, to the west of
Streaky Bay, was named for him by Captain Douglas.
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Members of the South Australian House of Assembly
19th-century Australian businesspeople
Settlers of South Australia
1821 births
1898 deaths
19th-century Australian politicians