{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2016}}
'''Edward McEllister''' (c. 1809 – 12 May 1866) was a politician in the early days of the Colony of South Australia.
==History== McEllister emigrated from Ireland, perhaps County Tipperary<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38436740 |title=Local intelligence |newspaper=South Australian Register |date=9 April 1850 |access-date=1 September 2014 |page=3 |via=Trove}}</ref> arriving in December 1839 aboard ''Delhi'' and served as a mounted policeman stationed for a time at Port Lincoln, then some time before 1845 took up business in Rundle Street, Adelaide, which proved lucrative, and he retired in 1850.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38442888 |title=Advertising |newspaper=South Australian Register |date=12 July 1850 |access-date=1 September 2014 |page=2 |via=Trove}}</ref>
McEllister was a member of the Legislative Assembly for the district of Yatala from March 1860 to November 1862.<ref name="SA parl">{{Cite SA-parl |pid=4180 |name=Edward McEllister |former=yes |access-date=3 December 2022}}</ref> He failed to be re-elected due to his support for compulsory Bible studies in State schools. He served in the Legislative Council from 1865 until his death the following year.<ref name="SA parl" /> He was survived by a widow, two sons and a daughter.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94745947 |title=Topics of the Week |newspaper=South Australian Weekly Chronicle |date=19 May 1866 |access-date=1 September 2014 |page=2 |via=Trove}}</ref>
==Family== McEllister married Mary Sheridan (c. 1811 – 23 July 1893); they had three surviving children: *Susan Mary McEllister (1840 – 20 May 1887) married Hampton Carroll Gleeson (1834–1907) on 15 November 1860. They had five sons and two daughters. *Robert McEllister (c. 1842 – 13 January 1891) *Thomas Edward McEllister (c. 1845 – 19 November 1886) married Norah Teresa O'Leary of Wirrabara on 8 January 1879. They had no children. A commission agent and share dealer, he was convicted of forgery in February 1868 and sentenced to two years' hard labor.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207736545 |title=Heads of Intelligence |newspaper=The Express and Telegraph |date=2 March 1868 |access-date=19 December 2019 |page=2 |via=Trove }}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:McEllister, Edward}} Category:Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Category:Members of the South Australian Legislative Council Category:1800s births Category:1866 deaths Category:19th-century Australian politicians