{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} '''Hampton Carroll Gleeson''' (31 August 1834 – 10 April 1907)<ref>{{Cite SA-parl |pid=3757 |name=Mr Hampton Gleeson |former=yes |access-date=23 August 2022}}</ref> was a pastoralist and politician in the young colony of South Australia. He was later involved in the business of brewing beer in the neighbouring colony of New South Wales.
==History== Hampton was the eldest son of John Hampton Gleeson, who with his brother Edward Burton Gleeson and their families emigrated to South Australia from Calcutta on the ''Emerald Isle'', arriving in July 1838. The voyage was organised by the Australian Association of Bengal, and besides the two Gleeson families and a few other settlers (notably Judge James Donnithorne) and their servants, the ship carried a number of Indian coolies, a large quantity of Indian merchandise and horses, including "Abdallah", an Arab stallion brought out by E. B. Gleeson for breeding purposes.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71684672 |title=The Australian Association of Bengal |newspaper=Southern Australian |date=28 July 1838 |access-date=17 June 2015 |page=3 |via=Trove}}</ref> There were (unspecified) problems with the ''Emerald Isle'' and her master.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71684944 |title=Indian News |newspaper=Southern Australian |date=8 December 1838 |access-date=17 June 2015 |page=4 |via=Trove}}</ref> The Association's other ship, the ''Guillardon'', was wrecked at the mouth of the Ganges in 1840,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8747561 |title=South Australia |newspaper=The Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemen's Land Gazette |date=26 June 1840 |access-date=17 June 2015 |page=4 |via=Trove}}</ref> and no further ships were despatched.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63743714 |title=Early Penwortham |newspaper=The Register |date=17 November 1922 |access-date=17 June 2015 |page=9 |via=Trove}}</ref>
The Gleesons established a pastoral property north of Penwortham, on which Edward Burton Gleeson developed a township, naming it Clare. John Hampton Gleeson died in 1840, when his son was barely six years old.
Somehow he received on excellent education and developed a keen business sense, perhaps at his uncle's property "Inchiquin" near Clare. In 1860 he took a business trip to India, bringing back as a curio several pairs of "mangouste" or "ichneumon" (mongoose), which he presented to Mr. Elliott (his landlord at the Globe Inn) and to the Botanic Garden.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90247877 |title=The Indian Snake Killer |newspaper=South Australian Weekly Chronicle |date=21 July 1860 |access-date=18 June 2015 |page=4 |via=Trove}}</ref> He secured a contract to supply a consignment of horses to India and in the same year entered into partnership with W. D. Kingsmill as station agents, with offices in Gilbert Place, Adelaide.
He was active in a number of mining ventures in the northern Flinders Ranges: New Cornwall Mineral Association Ltd. in 1861, Duryea Mining Company in 1862, and was managing director of the Daly and Stanley Mining Company in 1868. He secured an Auctioneers licence in 1864.
In 1869 he was appointed Justice of the Peace. He was elected to the S.A. Parliament as Member for Flinders, serving from April 1870 to December 1871, his colleague being Alfred Watts.
He moved to New South Wales, and was a founder in 1874, with W. K. Simms and Edgar Chapman, of the "Adelaide Brewery" in Waverley,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70487476 |title=The Adelaide Brewery, Waverley. |newspaper=Australian Town and Country Journal |date=26 December 1874 |access-date=17 June 2015 |page=20 |via=Trove}}</ref> the firm later known as Burrows and Gleeson, which took over Charles Mallon's "Waverley Brewery" in 1876.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18806864 |title=Adelaide. |newspaper=The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser |date=23 May 1876 |access-date=17 June 2015 |page=6 |via=Trove}}</ref> In 1876 the brewery was largely destroyed by flood; an interim arrangement with Tooheys Brewery to fill their orders resulted in that firm gaining a toehold in the area which they never lost.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article176750304 |title=A City Stake for Country Residents |newspaper=Guyra Argus |date=28 November 1912 |access-date=17 June 2015 |page=5 |via=Trove}}</ref> Gleeson was also associated with Marshall's Brewery.
He died at his home "Juliette", 44A Bayswater Road, Darlinghurst<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5062327 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Advertiser |date=18 April 1907 |access-date=16 June 2015 |page=4 |via=Trove}}</ref>
He was a member of Sydney Tattersalls Club and its treasurer in the last years of his life.
==Family== John Hampton Gleeson ( – 4 September 1840) and his wife ''née'' Carroll had a family which included: *Harriet Gleeson (c. 1833 – 27 March 1882) *'''Hampton Carroll Gleeson''' (31 August 1834 – 10 April 1907) married Susan Mary McEllister (c. 1839 – 20 May 1887), daughter of Edward McEllister, on 15 November 1860. Their five sons and two daughters children include: :*Edward William Gleeson (17 October 1861 – ). He worked with E.S.& A. Bank before founding his own clothing store.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article100629886 |title=Fortune in Chancery |newspaper=The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express |date=5 June 1903 |access-date=17 June 2015 |page=35 |via=Trove}}</ref> <!--:*son 22 May 1863 born at sea aboard ''Sussex'' :*son 30 December 1867 may have been the Robert Gleeson involved in totalizator fraud in 1898 :*son 12 January 1870 :*daughter 29 October 1876 born at Waverley :*son 9 April 1879--> :*Mabel Mary Gleeson (22 January 1883 – ) married Walter James Leonard on 6 February 1905 <!--:Edward John Hampton Gleeson (c. 1883 – 23 April 1943) married Melita Jane Cocker on 5 April 1913 whose son was he?--> :He married again, to Ida Josephson ( – ) on 4 May 1888. She was the daughter of Isaac Josephson of Macquarie Street, Sydney. He was buried in the Catholic section of the Waverley cemetery. *Sara Gleeson ( – ) married Dr. Arthur Newnham Bewicke ( – ) of Melrose on 18 April 1865. They left for England on the ''Orient'' in February 1874, never to return.
John Hampton Gleeson's brother Edward Burton "Paddy" Gleeson (c. 1801 – 2 February 1870) founder of Clare, married Harriet Llewellyn (c. 1799 – 6 June 1896) arrived in South Australia from India aboard the ''Emerald Isle'', with three children in July 1838.
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