The District Council of English was a local government area in South Australia from 1878 to 1932.
The first five councillors were appointed in the founding proclamation: Albert Day, John Farley, George Jansen, Wilhelm Ferdinand Sieber, and Johann Miekel.
[2][3] It gained the neighbouring Hundred of Bower under the District Councils Act 1887, with the new area represented by two additional councillors.
[4][5] The council seat was located at Point Pass, even though the largest town in the district was Robertstown.
[8][9] One former English chairman, A. W. Farley, had been a lone voice in support of the merger, claiming that the councils "had been bankrupt for ten years, inferior metal had been placed on the roads which did not last, and the money had been frittered away.