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David McLaren (colonial manager)
David McLaren (1785 – 22 June 1850) was a Scottish accountant and lay preacher who served as Resident Manager of the South Australian Company for the Colony of South Australia from 1837 to 1841.〔
==Biography==
In 1835, through acquaintanceship with George Fife Angas, he was appointed emigration agent for South Australia and sold shares in the South Australian Company. Then he was offered the post of Manager of the Colony; he sailed in the Company's barque ''South Australian'' and landed at Kingscote, Kangaroo Island on 22 April 1837. He did not have the practical skills and knowledge of his predecessor, Samuel Stephens, but he was an effective money-manager and by prudent investment (and some constructive bookkeeping〔(Juggling with the Public Monies ) ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register'' Saturday 28 July 1838 p,4 accessed 3 July 2011〕) he improved the fortunes of the Company and its subsidiary South Australian Bank, while making few friends.〔(McLaren, David (1785 - 1850) ) ''Australian Dictionary of Biography online'' retrieved 2 July 2011〕 He appears to fit the stereotype of the parsimonious Scot: the editor of the ''Register'' on the occasion of his farewell dinner wrote of a man wielding "immense influence for good or for evil ... object of divided feelings ... (not always acting on) right or sound and comprehensive views". And the triumphs of his administration, the New Port and the Company's banking operations, he ascribes to G. S. Kingston and Edward Stephens respectively.〔(Parting Dinner to David McLaren Esq. ) ''South Australian Register'' 2 January 1841 p.2 accessed 2 July 2011〕 ''The Register'' (or the ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register'' as it was then titled) was scathing in its criticism of both McLaren and the Resident Commissioner J. H. Fisher.〔(Slanders and Lies of the South Australian Gazette ) ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register'' 8 September 1838 pp.3–5 accessed 3 July 2011
The lucrative contract which the ''Gazette'' had for printing the Colony's ''Gazette'' was withdrawn in June the following year.〕
In January 1841 he returned to London as the Company's manager and continued to run its business profitably, and to the benefit of the Colony. Evidence he gave to the select committee on Australian shipping led to the repeal of the Navigation Acts in 1849.〔
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