John Fullerton Cleland
John Fullerton Cleland (1821 – 29 November 1901) was a Protestant Christian missionary who served with the London Missionary Society during the late Qing Dynasty China. He emigrated to South Australia, where he and his wife founded a family of considerable influence. History. Cleland was born in Edinburgh the only son of barrister William Lennox Cleland (c. 1798–1832) and Henrietta Cleland, née Fullerton, who married in 1816. On leaving school Cleland joined the East India Company as a midshipman aboard "Reliance". He left the Company for service with the London and Counties Bank; "Reliance" was wrecked near Boulogne  in November 1842, shortly after. He married Thomas Glen's daughter Elizabeth in 1845 and they went out to China as missionaries. Their first two children, William Lennox and Margaret Henrietta were born in Hong Kong in 1847 and 1848, and son John was born in Canton in 1850. Then Cleland suffered sunstroke, and the family returned to England and settled in Taunton, where George Fullerton Cleland was born in 1852. They then left for South Australia aboard "Gloucester", arriving in August 1852, and settled in a prefabricated home brought out from India by Edward Gleeson on a property dubbed  Gleeville, at 1 Dashwood Road, Beaumont. The two older children died in 1854 after suffering scarlet fever followed by dropsy. They had five more children, all boys. Cleland was appointed Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths in 1853, and held the position until 1885, when he resigned at the request of the Government, to be replaced by Dr. H. T. Whittell. Elizabeth died on 4 November 1895; he died on 29 November 1901 and was survived by six sons: The Beaumont Clelands were distantly related to Professor Sir John Cleland FRS (1835–1925) of University of Glasgow (the Professor and William  Lennox Cleland had the same great-grandfather) Family. John Cleland (13 November 1848 – 23 August 1936), Northern Territory pioneer and hero of the SS "Gothenburg" shipwreck was not a close relative.