John Fullerton Cleland

[1] He emigrated to South Australia, where he and his wife founded a family of considerable influence.

On leaving school Cleland joined the East India Company as a midshipman aboard Reliance.

He left the Company for service with the London and Counties Bank; Reliance was wrecked near Boulogne in November 1842, shortly after.

[3] They then left for South Australia aboard Gloucester, arriving in August 1852,[4] and settled in a prefabricated home brought out from India by Edward Gleeson on a property dubbed "Gleeville", at 1 Dashwood Road, Beaumont.

Cleland was appointed Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths in 1853, and held the position until 1885, when he resigned at the request of the Government, to be replaced by Dr. H. T.