c. 1872, Photograph, B 6671
Captain John Hart, mariner, merchant and parliamentarian. As a mariner he stood on the future site of Adelaide whilst sailing in the Gulf St Vincent. In 1835 whilst in England to buy a ship he talked with the South Australian Colonization Commission and Colonel William Light about sailing directions. He later ran a whaling station at Encounter Bay. He is remembered as a company director, flour miller, grazier, Member of both Upper and Lower Houses, mining investor, Premier, shipowner and whaler.