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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>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 of Eswatini|President of the Senate]]<ref name="histdict">{{cite book |last1=Grotpeter |first1=John J. |title=Historical dictionary of Swaziland |date=1975 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Metuchen, N.J |isbn=0-8108-0805-6}}</ref> from 1967 to 1973.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_8lBAAAAYAAJ |title = The story of Swaziland|last1 = Scutt|first1 = Joan Frances|year = 1980| publisher=Websters |isbn = 9780797800069}}</ref><br />
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Houlton was born in 1892.<ref name="kelly">{{cite web |title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage |url=https://www.google.fi/books/edition/Debrett_s_Peerage_Baronetage_Knightage_a/0SIMAQAAMAAJ |publisher=Kelly's Directories |language=en |date=1973}}</ref> His family was from [[Middlesex]] and he was educated at [[the Perse School]], and [[Christ's College, Cambridge]].<ref name="kelly" /> He worked in the [[Indian Civil Service]], in the [[government of Bihar]], from 1933.<ref name="kelly" /> <br />
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Houlton emigrated to South Africa in 1950, and then to Swaziland, where he was made a legal secretary.<ref name="histdict" /> In 1965, he became speaker of the [[Legislative Council of Swaziland]], and two years later he became Speaker of the Senate.<ref name="histdict" /> He retired from that position in May 1973.<ref name="histdict" /> <br />
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Houlton was the author of ''Bihar, the Heart of India'' (1949).<ref>{{cite web |author=East-West Center Library |title=Select List of Recent Publications |url=https://www.google.fi/books/edition/Select_List_of_Recent_Publications/9e61xpPeKXkC |publisher=East-West Center Library. |language=en |date=1963}}</ref> For years he wrote editorials in the [[Times of Swaziland]].<ref name="histdict" /> He died on 9 November 1973.<ref name="histdict" /> <br />
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