The Lion Brewing and Malting Company of Jerningham Street, Lower North Adelaide was one of the many breweries which proliferated in Australia in the nineteenth century.
[1] The company was floated in 1888 in order to secure the brewing, hotel and property assets of Beaglehole and Johnston, issuing 75,000 shares of £1 each.
[9] Robert Cock, a "first settler" who accompanied Governor Hindmarsh on HMS Buffalo, and for whom Cox's Creek was named, has been reported as founder of the malting business.
[8] James Johnston was one of the best-known men in the south, as his firm had business connections and valuable hotel property in all the principal centres of the district.
He took an active interest in the politics of the Onkaparinga district and was generous in his support of the Woodside and Mount Barker Institutes.
He was an enthusiastic proponent of "acclimatisation of useful species" and stocked the district about his home with Californian quail, and filled the Onkaparinga with perch.
May 1892) was partner in the Broken Hill, New South Wales brewing firm of Simpson, Johnston and Co.[11] Frederick Arthur Chapman (10 March 1864 – 18 September 1925) was born in Stepney, South Australia, the son of Arthur Chapman, one of Adelaide's best-known hotel brokers.