Frederick Augustus Forbes (30 September 1818 – 9 July 1878) was a politician in colonial
Queensland
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Speaker
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of the
Legislative Assembly of Queensland
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Early life
Forbes was born on 30 September 1818 in Liverpool
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, Sydney
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, New South Wales
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, to Francis Ewen, a merchant, and his wife Mary Ann Taboweur.[ He attended ]William Cape
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Cape was born at Walworth, Surrey, England, the son of William Cape, a Lon ...
's school and The King's School, Parramatta
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, before spending several years at sea.[
] When his father died he took over his father's store in Liverpool in 1842 before marrying Margaret Milner in 1844.[
]
Politics
Forbes soon moved to Ipswich
Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...
where he opened another store and became involved in the Queensland Separation movement
The Separation of Queensland was an event in 1859 in which the land that forms the present-day State of Queensland in Australia was excised from the Colony of New South Wales and created as a separate Colony of Queensland.
History
European set ...
.Arthur Macalister
Arthur Macalister, (18 January 1818 – 23 March 1883) was three times Premier of Queensland, Australia.
Early life
Macalister was born in Glasgow, Scotland, son of John Macalister, a cabinet maker, and his wife Mary, ''née'' Scoullar. Ma ...
and Patrick O'Sullivan
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, was elected to the new seat of Ipswich
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in the Queensland Legislative Assembly
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which he served until his defeat in 1863.West Moreton
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from September 1868 until his retirement in November 1873.Speaker
Speaker may refer to:
Society and politics
* Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly
* Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture
* A person producing speech: the producer of a given utterance, especially:
** I ...
from 1871 to 1873.
Later life
Though Forbes declared bankruptcy in 1870 because of the 1866-67 money crisis, he managed to quickly rebuild and was able to continue investing in businesses until his death. Forbes died as a result of an accident at Ipswich, Queensland, 9 July 1878 at the age of 59 and was survived by eleven out of his seventeen children.[
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See also
* Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1860–1863
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; 1863–1867; 1868–1870; 1870–1871; 1871–1873
References
Speakers of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
1818 births
1878 deaths
Politicians from Sydney
19th-century Australian politicians
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