Charles Richmond Glover

For other people named Charles Glover, see Charles Glover (disambiguation).

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.

Charles Richmond Glover
Mayor of Adelaide
In office 1917–1919, 1923–1925, 1930–1933
Personal details
Born	(1870-05-03)3 May 1870
Died	27 October 1936(1936-10-27) (aged 66)
Occupation	businessman

He was a company director, active in the Freemasons^[1] and philanthropist. He established the three Glover playgrounds in the Adelaide Parklands that are named after him.

He was a major collector of books on Australia and the Pacific. This library was inherited by his son and, in turn, by his grandson. The collection, consisting of 2,787 lots, was sold by auction in December 1970.^[2]

He was a regular worshipper at St. John's Anglican Church and the author of History of the Church of St. John the Evangelist (1919).

He was father of Charles John Glover, known as Sir John Glover, also Lord Mayor of Adelaide from 1960 to 1963.^[1]

Personal life

In 1910 he married Elizabeth Maude Hannam.^[3]

Publications

• Glover, C.R.J. (Charles Richmond John), 1870-1936, A history of first fifty years of Freemasonry in South Australia, 1834-1884. Grand Lodge of South Australia, 1916.
• Charles Richmond John Glover, A Brief History of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Adelaide, 1839-1909, published 1908.