Allan McFarlane, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Allan McFarlane

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1792

Date of Death: 11-Mar-1864

Profession: politician, farmer

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Allan McFarlane (10 April 1792 – 11 March 1864) was a Scottish pastoralist and parliamentarian in The Murray and then Mount Barker districts of the Colony of South Australia.His son Allan McFarlane sen.
(1829–1908) succeeded him on the Wellington Lodge station.
His grandson, Allan McFarlane jun.
ran Jockwar Station, Tailem Bend, and had a son, also Allan McFarlane.Allan McFarlane and his wife Margaret (née Horne) (22 November 1795 – 17 September 1878) and their family left their home in Caithness, Scotland, and arrived in South Australia aboard the Superb on 29 October 1839.
Margaret's brother Donald Horne (died 1870) was a Writer to the Signet.McFarlane was appointed Justice of the Peace some time before December 1858 and Special Magistrate in 1864.McFarlane was elected to the seat of The Murray in the South Australian House of Assembly in 1862 in a by-election occasioned by the death of Dr.
David Wark.
He defeated Henry Kent Hughes 20 votes to 18 (out of a constituency in excess of 200, voting not being then compulsory).
With a redistribution later that year, most of his seat was subsumed in the seat of Mount Barker.
and he was, with John Dunn, elected to that seat in the election held at the end of 1862. McFarlane bought Wellington Lodge station. McFarlane was for many years active with the Mount Barker Agricultural and Horticultural Society.
and a Mount Barker representative on the Country Committee of the R.A.& H.SMcFarlane died at his residence Ruthyn Lodge, Kensington.