John Garland

John Garland (17 September 1862 – 23 February 1921) was a Scottish-born Australian politician.

He was born at Fordyce, Banffshire On 21 December 1896 he married Isobel Chisholm, with whom he had a daughter. A founding member of the Council of the Bar of New South Wales, he was also a procurator of the Presbyterian Church and a lecturer on ecclesiastical law at the University of Sydney.

In 1898 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Woollahra. He was defeated in 1901, but won a by-election for Tamworth in 1903. Defeated again in 1904, he ran unsuccessfully for Phillip in 1907 before he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1908. In 1909 he was appointed Minister of Justice and Solicitor General in the Wade ministry, to assist the Premier in his portfolio of Attorney General, and was appointed King's Counsel on 2 March 1910. He served until October 1910 when Labor assumed office.