{{Short description|Australian politician (1837–1912)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} thumb|right '''Luke Lidiard Furner''' (1837 – 24 June 1912) was a politician in colonial South Australia, Commissioner of Public Works 1886 to 1887.<ref name=parl>{{cite SA-parl |pid=3750 |name=Mr Luke Furner |former=yes |access-date=19 August 2022}}</ref><ref name=Register/>
Furner was born in Lymington, Hampshire, England, and at his Age of majority travelled to Melbourne, Australia, in the ''Mermaid'', later moving to Adelaide, South Australia.<ref name=Register/> Furner was in business in Goolwa and Moonta, South Australia, where he founded the auctioneering firm of Moody, Furner, and Co. which lasted until 1885.<ref name=Register/> Furner was mayor of the Corporate Town of Moonta three times and was Worshipful Master of the local Lodge of Freemasons.<ref name=Register/>
Furner was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly for Wallaroo on 5 April 1878, a seat he held until 8 April 1890.<ref name=parl/> Furner was Commissioner of Public Works in the John Downer administration<ref>{{cite Australasia|Furner, Luke Lydiard}}</ref> from 8 June 1886 to 11 June 1887.<ref name=parl/> He contested the 1891 Wallaroo by-election.
Furner died in Prospect, South Australia on 24 June 1912.<ref name=Register> {{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59077796 |newspaper=The Register |title=An Old Ex-Legislator |location=Adelaide, S.A. |date=25 June 1912 |access-date=25 August 2014 |page=5 |via=Trove }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef | before= John Spence }} {{s-ttl | title=Commissioner of Public Works | years= 1886–1887 }} {{s-aft|after=Alfred Catt}} {{s-par|au-sa}} {{s-bef | before=John Duncan<br />John Richards}} {{s-ttl | title=Member for Wallaroo | years=1878–1890 |alongside=R. D. Ross, C. S. Hare<br />W. H. Beaglehole}} {{s-aft | after=Henry Allerdale Grainger }} {{s-civ}} {{s-bef | before=Charles Drew }} {{s-ttl | title=Mayor of Moonta | years=1873–1976 }} {{s-aft | after=Samuel Rossiter }} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Furner, Luke Lidiard}} Category:1837 births Category:1912 deaths Category:English emigrants to colonial Australia Category:Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Category:People from Lymington Category:Mayors of places in South Australia Category:Australian auctioneers Category:19th-century Australian businesspeople Category:Politicians from the Colony of South Australia Category:British emigrants to the Colony of South Australia