Henry Barwell

Sir Henry Newman Barwell (1877 to 1959) is best known as a lawyer and politician who became the 28th premier of South Australia in 1920, but he was also an expert lawn bowler who represented Australia at the 1934 British Empire Games. Born in Adelaide and educated at St Peter's College and the University of Adelaide, he was admitted to the bar in 1899, entered the House of Assembly in 1915, served as Attorney-General from 1917 and held the premiership until his defeat in 1924. He later sat in the Australian Senate from 1925 to 1928 and served as South Australian Agent-General in London until 1933. His knighthood, the KCMG, came in 1922. In sport he belongs to the history of lawn bowls at the early Empire Games, now the Commonwealth Games.