John Ellis (pastoralist)

[9] Another significant employee was J. C. Kennedy (c. 1827 – 10 October 1897), from the same part of Scotland, who managed the Benara and Coola properties for him, then for his son T. C.

[10] In June 1851, he accepted the petition of a number of electors for the seat of Flinders in the reconstituted Legislative Council,[11] and in August 1851 became one of the first sixteen elected parliamentarians in South Australia.

[12] Having made a considerable fortune in South Australia, he retired with his wife Elizabeth and family back to England.

[7] He died on 22 March 1873 in Kempton Park, Middlesex, England, at the age of 69, and was interred in Bay 49 (burial no.19275) of the Terrace Catacombs of Highgate Cemetery.

A brother Thomas Ellis (c. 1808 – 12 May 1841)[14] arrived in Adelaide aboard Lord Glenelg on 10 May 1841[15] and died shortly after.