John Lavington Bonython

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Sir John Lavington Bonython (1875-1960), was the son of Sir John Langdon Bonython, Australian politician and long-time editor of The Advertiser. He married Blanche Ada Bray, daughter of Sir John Cox Bray, by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth Hornabrook Bonython, Lady Wilson, C.B.E. After his first wife's early death, he re-married.

He was publisher of the The Advertiser in succession to his father. He also served as Mayor of Adelaide (1911-1913) and later as Lord Mayor of Adelaide, South Australia (1927-1930).