Allan McFarlane
Allan McFarlane (10 April 1792 – 11 March 1864) was a Scottish pastoralist and parliamentarian in The Murray and then Mount Barker districts of the Colony of South Australia. His son Allan McFarlane sen. (1829–1908) succeeded him on the Wellington Lodge station. His grandson, Allan McFarlane jun. ran Jockwar Station, Tailem Bend, and had a son, also Allan McFarlane. Life. Allan McFarlane and his wife Margaret ("née" Horne) (22 November 1795 – 17 September 1878) and their family left their home in Caithness, Scotland, and arrived in South Australia aboard the "Superb" on 29 October 1839. Margaret's brother Donald  Horne (died 1870) was a Writer to the Signet. McFarlane was appointed Justice of the Peace some time before December 1858 and Special Magistrate in 1864. In 1862, McFarlane was elected to the seat of The Murray in the South Australian House of Assembly, in a by-election occasioned by the death of Dr. David Wark. He defeated Henry Kent Hughes 20 votes to 18 (out of a constituency in excess of 200, voting not being then compulsory). With a redistribution later that year, most of his seat was subsumed in the seat of Mount Barker. and he was, with  John Dunn, elected to that seat in the election held at the end of 1862. McFarlane bought Wellington Lodge station. He was for many years active with the Mount Barker Agricultural and Horticultural Society. and a Mount Barker representative on the Country Committee of the R.A.& H.S McFarlane died at his residence Ruthyn Lodge, Kensington. Family. For many years his name was spelled McFarlane or MacFarlane interchangeably in the newspapers, so it would appear that he was indifferent to its orthography, but eventually "McFarlane" was settled on by his descendants, with famous exceptions noted below. The occasional spelling "Alan" in  references can be ascribed to typographical mistakes. Among the children of Allan McFarlane and his wife Margaret ("née" Horne) (22 November 1795 – 17 September 1878) were: The McFarlanes owned the Wellington Lodge station prior to 1855 Their home until around 1860 was "Glensloy", near Mount Barker Junction (midway between Balhannah and Littlehampton). which remained family property until 1882. Duncan McFarlane J.P. (died 27 October 1856), also of Mount Barker and of "Alverstoke" Glen Osmond was no relation.