What is Mountifort Longfield Conner?
'''Mountifort Longfield Conner''' was a [[South Australia]]n [[politician]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf|title=Table O: House of Assembly members 1857—2007|first=|last=|work=Parliament of South Australia|year=2010|accessdate=7 April 2013|archive-date=11 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190311113513/http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> He represented the [[electorate]]s of Light (1871—1873) and Albert (1875). In 1874 he was a made a Commissioner of the Goldfields Commission, which supervised mining leases in the Northern Territory.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28734123 |title=NORTHERN TERRITORY,. |newspaper=[[The_Advertiser_(Adelaide)|The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889)]] |location=Adelaide, SA |date=16 September 1874 |accessdate=7 April 2013 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> [[Mount Conner]] in the [[Northern Territory]] was named after him by explorer [[William Gosse]] in 1873. ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Conner, Mountifort Longfield}} [[Category:Politicians from South Australia]]