page_title: John Lavington Bonython
section_title: Jean, Lady Bonython
hierarchical_section_title: John Lavington Bonython / Family / Jean, Lady Bonython
caption_attribution_description: The now removed Lavington Bonython Fountain in front of the SA Museum and the Mortlock Wing of the State Library on w:North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
context_page_description: Sir John Lavington Bonython was a prominent public figure in Adelaide, known for his work in journalism, business and politics. In association with his father, he became involved in the management of newspapers including The Advertiser; he also served as editor of The Saturday Express and as a journalist. After The Advertiser was sold in 1929 and converted to a public company, he became a director, and for a time vice-chairman; an association that continued until his death. In 1901 he began a long association with the Adelaide City Council, serving as Mayor of Adelaide and later as Lord Mayor of Adelaide. He was knighted in 1935. The now removed Lavington Bonython Fountain on North Terrace was erected in front of the SA Museum in his honour.
context_section_description: Four years later, on 11 December 1912, Lavington Bonython married 21-year-old Constance Jean Warren, (later Lady Bonython OBE), with whom he had three children, Warren, Katherine and Kym. Lavington was Mayor of Adelaide at the time, and Jean was widely referred to as "the Baby Mayoress". She was amazingly active and on dozens of committees too numerous to mention here. She had a major stroke in 1970, and in the period between then and her death in 1977, her son Warren wrote her biography: "I'm no lady : the reminiscences of Constance Jean, Lady Bonython, O.B.E. 1891-1977", edited by C. Warren Bonython, Issued in progressive chapter-instalments 1976–1981.
  Charles Warren Bonython AO (1916–2012) was a conservationist, author and, before he retired from business in 1966, a chemical engineer. He is best known for his role in the creation of the Heysen Trail, but has made many significant contributions to the conservation of the arid regions of South Australia.
  Katherine Downer Bonython (born 1918) married Colin Clark Verco in 1940, with the couple presenting Lavington Bonython with three granddaughters.
  Hugh Reskymer (Kym) Bonython AC DFC AFC (KStJ) (15 September 1920 – 19 March 2011) lived an active and varied life, fulfilling a wide range of roles, including  working as an ABC Radio broadcaster (1937-1938), RAAF pilot during the Second World War (DFC and AFC), running art galleries in both Sydney and Adelaide, being a strong advocate for the monarchy (representing South Australia as a delegate at the 1998 Constitutional Convention), and serving as a company director and board member on numerous boards. He was also an art dealer, an author of numerous art books and a novel, a jazz entrepreneur, long time promoter of the Rowley Park Speedway (1954–73) in Adelaide and a regular driver of Speedcars, proprietor of a number of record shops, and a concert promoter. In the last role he brought many of the "jazz greats" to Adelaide, and played a major role in negotiating the addition of Adelaide to The Beatles 1964 tour of Australia.
caption: The Lavington Bonython Fountain, 2003
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