Career
He is noted for producing what may have been the first lithographs in the young colony. He took over the licence of the Stag Inn, corner of Rundle Street and East Terrace, on December 1849. On the evening of Sunday 26 October 1851 a brawl broke out in the "Stag" between a bootmaker named Charles Grosse and a group of Irishmen, among them John Egan and John O"Dea.
Sydney Glover fired a pistol, killing O"Dea.
A trial for manslaughter failed to convict him. He relinquished his hotel licence in December 1851.
He suffered ill-health for a number of years and died at his home on North Terrace, Adelaide. Henry Heath Glover, Jnr (ca24 May 1827 – 15 June 1904) was also a lithographic artist.
They had five children: George, Arthur, Ann, Maud and Caroline.
He had a significant career as an artist – see main article. Sydney George Glover (ca1828 – 6 January 1908) married Martha Manning Burchell (ca1841 – 9 July 1909). They lived at Magill Road, North Norwood.