Charles Hastings Barton (1 January 1829 - 16 June 1902) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography

Barton was born in

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, the son of Charles Cutts Barton and his wife Emillia Ann Barton (née Middleton). His brother was

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, who was to become a Major-general in the

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. He was educated at

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and

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, where he matriculated in 1848 and graduated B.A. in 1852. In 1853 Barton emigrated to

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, where he was a Bachelor of Arts tutor and took up sheep farming and winegrowing. He became editor and part-owner of the German-language weekly '' Süd-Australische Zeitung'', and when that was taken over in 1863 to become the ''

Australische Zeitung The ''Australische Zeitung'' was a weekly German-language newspaper published in Tanunda, South Australia from 1860 until it ceased publication during World War I in 1916 due to anti-German sentiment. The newspaper also existed in a variety of ea ...

'', co-founded the ''Tanunda Deutsche Zeitung'' with Friedrich Basedow, with assistance from Carl Muecke. In 1864 he took over the ''Northern Star'', which he re-launched as ''

The Kapunda Herald ''The Kapunda Herald'' was a newspaper published in Kapunda, South Australia from 29 October 1864 to 25 January 1951. From 1864 to 1878 the masthead was subtitled ''"and Northern Intelligencer"''. It was published weekly, except for the period Feb ...

''. Found insolvent, he fled his South Australian creditors, and in 1867 arrived in Queensland, where he was the editor and later, the lead-writer of the '' Maryborough Chronicle''. He then was the classics and second master at

Maryborough Boys Grammar School Maryborough State High School (commonly abbreviated as 'MSHS') is an Independent Public School located in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. The school is run by the Queensland State Government, and is split on either side of Kent Street. The s ...

from 1881 until 1896. Barton was married twice, firstly to Catharine M. Basedow whom he married at Tanunda in 1859 and together had a son and three daughters. She died in 1863; he then married Catherine's sister, Elisabeth Basedow, also in Tanunda and this marriage produced another two sons and five daughters. Barton died in Maryborough in June 1902 and his funeral proceeded from his Kent Street residence to the

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Public career

Barton, representing the Labour Party, won one of the two positions for the two-member seat of Maryborough at the

1902 Queensland state election Elections were held in the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland on 11 March 1902 to elect the members of the state's Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Legislative Assembly. Key dates This was the first Queensla ...

. He served alongside John Norman, also of the Labour Party. Barton died three months after the election and before he could take his seat in the

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Family

C. H. Barton married Catharine Magdalena Basedow (died 1863) in 1859. Their children were: *Charles (1860– ) *Harriet Catharine (1861–1862) *Emily Harriette (1862– ) *Catharine (1863–1863) He married Anna Elisabeth Basedow in 1865 The Basedow sisters were daughters of Christian Friedrich Basedow (died 1886), who with his large family emigrated to South Australia on the ''Vesta'', arriving in August 1856 and settled in Tanunda. Christian Friedrich may have been a brother of

Martin Peter Friedrich Basedow Martin Peter Friedrich Basedow (25 September 1829 – 12 March 1902) was a native of Hanover, Germany who arrived in South Australia aboard the ''Pauline'' in March 1848. Basedow, C. H. Barton, and Georg Valentine Eimer (c. 1824 – c. 3 Ap ...

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References

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