John Robert Lewis Kingon FRSE FLS (died 1969) was a missionary noted for his work in South Africa, an author on religious education and an amateur botanist.
His proposers were Cargill Gilston Knott, Joseph Shield Nicholson, Robert Wallace and George Alexander Carse.
The elephant population of the "Addo herd" had been depleted from 119 to only 16 specimens in only one year, largely at the hands of a single big game hunter, Major P J Pretorius.
When the college relocated to Kalk Bay one of the campus buildings was named "Kingon' in his honour.
Due to his connections to the Afrikaans community the University of Ghent awarded him an honorary doctorate (DSc).