John Bloomfield

Sir John Stoughton Bloomfield (9 October 1901 – 30 June 1989) was an Australian politician.

Bloomfield was born in Toorak to accountant Arthur stoughton Bloomfield and Ada Victoria McGuigan. He attended Geelong Grammar School before entering Trinity College in 1921 while studying at Melbourne University, where he received a Bachelor of Law. He practised as a solicitor from 1927, and on 21 March 1931 married Beatrice Madge Taylor, with whom he had two children. During World War II he served in the AIF in the Middle East and New Guinea, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. On his return from the war he was a barrister 1945–1955.

A member of the Liberal and Country Party, Bloomfield was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1953 in a by-election for the seat of Malvern.