Ivor MacGillivray

Ivor MacGillivray (24 May 1840 – 16 January 1939) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Port Adelaide from 1893 to 1918.

At 19, he left the ship in Melbourne, spent two years at the Bendigo gold rushes, before leaving for the gold rushes in Otago, New Zealand, where he spent a further twelve years.

He was expelled from the Labor Party in the 1917 Labor split over his support for conscription in World War I; his son had been killed in the Gallipoli Campaign.

[4] MacGillivray recontested Port Adelaide for the splinter National Party, but was defeated by John Stanley Verran.

[8] MacGillivray died at the Adelaide Hospital in 1939, aged 98, following a fall in his home.