He subsequently accepted an appointment, along with Edward Castres Gwynne, John Morphett and Major Norman Campbell as a non-official (i.e. without portfolio) member.
[5] He left the colony some time before December 1856, and was named, along with George Morphett, James Philcox, Edmund Trimmer, and George Aston by one Adelaide newspaper in an article condemning certain land speculators for underhand practices, including conspiring to purchase Government land at less than market prices.
of Springfield (which may be "Gable Ends"), who purchased town acre 717 on Kermode Street, North Adelaide,[8] sat on a jury, and on the board of the "Princess Royal" mine.
(Henry) Allerdale Grainger (7 August 1848 – 17 December 1923), who sat in the Legislative Assembly for Wallaroo 1884–1885 and 1890–1901, was a nephew, not a son as sometimes asserted.
[9] His father (John's eldest brother) Henry Grainger (1 April 1801 – 24 November 1899) was the absentee landholder of several Adelaide properties, and had the largest stake in the Princess Royal Mine, Burra.