Mountifort Longfield Conner

Australian politician (1824-1880)

Mountifort Longfield Conner was a South Australian politician.[1] He represented the electorates 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.[2] Mount Conner in the Northern Territory was named after him by explorer William Gosse in 1873.

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  1. "Table O: House of Assembly members 1857—2007" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  2. "NORTHERN TERRITORY,". The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 16 September 1874. p. 2. Retrieved 7 April 2013.