John Baxter Mather (5 March 1853 – 7 November 1940) was a Scottish born journalist, newspaper proprietor, landscape painter and art critic in South Australia.
[1] Around 1864 they moved to Mount Gambier, South Australia, where after completing his schooling he started working as a compositor for A. F. Laurie and John Watson's Border Watch.
[3] In 1875, he started work at Naracoorte, South Australia for the Border Watch, running its daughter publication, the Narracoorte Herald, which shortly afterwards he and George Ash acquired.
[5][6] He moved to Adelaide and found employment with The Advertiser as a compositor, then joined their literary staff[7] as an art critic, a post he filled for fifteen years.
A few are listed here: His published books include: He was also a landscape painter of some distinction, in watercolors, and a member of the Adelaide Easel Club.