Reuben Cranstoun Mowbray (31 Aug 1883 – 12 Jul 1955)[1] was a newspaper editor and member of the South Australian parliament.
Born in Gippsland, Victoria, Mowbray was a reporter, then editor of the South Eastern Times from 1906 to early 1952, and its owner from 1921 onward.
In 1932, he was elected unopposed as a Liberal and Country League member of the South Australian Legislative Council for the Southern District, following the death in office of Sir Lancelot Stirling.
[3] He ran for re-election in 1938 but was defeated, and was unsuccessful in a bid for LCL preselection for a 1938 by-election for another Southern District seat.
[2] He married Eda Sophia Spehr on 29 December 1909; they divorced in 1941.