John Wardle Houlton

Sir John Wardle Houlton was a British civil servant in the Foreign Office who emigrated to Swaziland and served as the President of the Senate^[1] from 1967 to 1973.^[2]

Houlton was born in 1892.^[3] His family was from Middlesex and he was educated at the Perse School, and Christ's College, Cambridge.^[3] He worked in the Indian Civil Service, in the government of Bihar, from 1933.^[3]

Houlton emigrated to South Africa in 1950, and then to Swaziland, where he was made a legal secretary.^[1] In 1965, he became speaker of the Legislative Council of Swaziland, and two years later he became Speaker of the Senate.^[1] He retired from that position in May 1973.^[1]

Houlton was the author of Bihar, the Heart of India (1949).^[4] For years he wrote editorials in the Times of Swaziland.^[1] He died on 9 November 1973.^[1]