David Bews

David Bews (April 1850 – 24 February 1891)[1] was a newspaper editor, politician in colonial South Australia and Minister of Education.

[2] Bews was born near Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, and went to South Australia with his parents the following year.

Bews was educated at Allen Martin's school in Port Adelaide then worked as a farmer until he reached the age of majority, when he secured a position as clerk with the Kadina & Wallaroo Railway Company.

[2] He subsequently became goods manager, but seven years later (in 1878), when the Government took over the line, he left the service to work for the Kadina and Wallaroo Times.

Bews, who had been appointed one of the South Australian delegates at the Postal Convention, died in Melbourne whilst en route to Sydney on 24 February 1891.