Hon. John Crozier, M.L.C.,
BORN August 12, 1814, in Eoxburgh, Scotland, near Hawick. Came to New South Wales in 1838, under engagement to Dr. Anderson, of Paramatta, to manage his estate of Redesdale, near Braidwood. Most of the men there were convicts or assigned servants from the Government. He left at the end of three years, and engaged with Captain Dobson, R.K., as manager of the Sandhills Station, near Bungendore. Lake George. (Mr. Challis, of the firm of Flower, Salting & Co., who died lately and left £100,000 to the University of Sydney, was the person who carried on the commercial business for Captain Dobson in Sydney, and with whom Mr. Crozier corresponded.) In 1846 Mr. Crozier left the Sandhills and in conjunction with Mr. George Rutherford commenced squatting on the Edward River, and subsequently on the Murray, near Wentworth. He at length bought out Mr. Rutherford's interest in Kulnine, and purchased Mooma and other stations on the Murray. On becoming proprietor of Oaklands he went to reside there in 1867. He was a candidate for the Legislative Council in August of that year with the late Sir W. Morgan and Emanuel Solomon, and returned at the head of the polL He was again elected for the Council in 1876, and returned second on the poll; and in 1885 was returned in a similar manner. In 1867 Mr. Crozier was appointed a member of the Brighton District Council, and has been in it ever since, most of the time as Chairman. Mr. Crozier's colonial experiences have a wide range, and embrace New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia; for each of which he is a Justice of the Peace. He remembers the man William Scott, who was allowed the first horse to go after cattle in the colonies by his master -(Captain J. MacArthur, of Camden), and he also had the honour of riding on George Stephenson's first passenger railway, between Stockton and Darlington, before it was opened for public traffic. Mr. Crozier is one of the most useful men in the South Australian Legislature, and has been instrumental in doing much good. In private life he is regarded as possessing many virtues and few faults.
Hon. John Crozier, M.L.C.