John Neales

In 1841, Neales helped found the South Australian Mining Association which worked the "Wheal Gawler" silver-lead deposit at Glen Osmond then Montacute.

Around 1860, he was involved in a Parliamentary enquiry into the floating of the Great Northern Copper Mining Company of James Chambers.

Neales was appointed to the South Australian Legislative Council in 1851 and was elected to the seat of North Adelaide in 1855.

[2] Neales served as a member of the South Australian House of Assembly for the City of Adelaide in 1857-60 and for the seat of The Burra (partnered with George Cole) from 1862 to 1870.

[7] A remarkable tribute was paid him in the pages of The Register by John Howard Clark in the voice of "Geoffry Crabthorn", better known for pungent satire than fulsome praise:[8] Neales married Margaret Williams (c. 1808 – 18 October 1877) on 11 July 1843.