Charles Richmond Glover

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.

He was a company director, active in the Freemasons

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.

Personal life In 1910 he married Elizabeth Maude Hannam.

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.