The printer Charles Morris Russell Dumas was the 'founding editor and sole proprietor of the Mount Barker Courier; he was also a member of the [South Australian] House of Assembly in 1898-1902'.
Dumas is the father of journalist and newspaper executive Sir Frederick Lloyd Dumas (1891-1973).
Source: S. Cockburn, 'Dumas, Sir Frederick Lloyd (1891–1973)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
Sighted: 10/12/2013
