Name Charles Glover | Died October 27, 1936 | |
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Books A History of First Fifty Years of Freemasonry in South Australia, 1834-1884 |
Charles Richmond John Glover (1870–1936) was the Mayor of Adelaide from 1917 to 1919. He was in office when the City of Adelaide became a Lord Mayoralty in 1919, and so became Adelaide's first Lord Mayor. He served two further terms as Lord Mayor: from 1923 to 1925 and from 1930 to 1933.
He was a philanthropist and established the three Glover playgrounds in the Adelaide Parklands that are named after him.
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