John Pickering (Australian politician)

Pickering was born in Ashborne,[1] Warwickshire, England and trained as a carpenter in Leamington after working for some time at a coalyard.

He found ready employment and by 1849 and owned two lots on the Port Road, Hindmarsh and a timber merchant's business.

[2] In 1851 he joined the gold rush to Victoria, and within a few years returned to Hindmarsh sufficiently wealthy to give up active business life.

[2] He entered Parliament in March, 1865, representing West Torrens in the House of Assembly, with H. B. T. Strangways as his colleague.

[2] He was a teetotaller, a prominent worker for the Temperance movement[5] and a member of the British and Foreign Bible Society.