Edwin Derrington

Edwin Henry Derrington (1 July 1830 – 14 October 1899) was a journalist and politician in colonial South Australia.

[1] He was the member for Victoria in the South Australian House of Assembly from December 1871 to May 1873,[2] and served as Commissioner of Crown Lands in the Henry Ayers Ministry from 22 January to 4 March 1872.

[4] For many years, Derrington was connected with journalism in Victoria and South Australia; he owned and edited the Mount Gambier Standard from around 1869 to 1872.

He then moved to Moonta, where he founded and ran the Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser and Miners' News for eleven years.

[1] He purchased the Adelaide Punch from J. C. F. Johnson in 1881, but had no success with the venture; he disposed of it in 1884 and it folded shortly after.