Isidor Siegfried Lissner (1832 – 22 July 1902) was a politician in

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, Australia. He was a

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Early life

Lissner was born in Posen,

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, the son of Siegfried Lissner and Julia Gluckmann.Chapter 7. Isidor Lissner and the politics of the eighties
— James Cook University. Retrieved 19 January 2015.

Mining

He emigrated in 1856 to

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, where, after a varied experience on the gold diggings, he went to

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and subsequently to

, where he first settled at

Ravenswood, Queensland Ravenswood is a rural town and locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Ravenswood had a population of 255 people. It is historically and currently a gold mining town. Geography The Flinders Hi ...

and then moved to

Charters Towers Charters Towers is a rural town in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It is by road south-west from Townsville on the Flinders Highway. During the last quarter of the 19th century, the town boomed as the rich gold deposits unde ...

. Lissner came to England with Mr. Black in 1887 as the representative of the Charters Towers miners to assist Harold Finch-Hatton in pressing the question of North Queensland Separation on the attention of the Home Government.

Politics

Lissner was member for Kennedy from 5 October 1883 to 13 May 1893, (Secretary for Mines and Public Works 27 March 1893 to 25 May 1893) and member for Cairns from 4 April 1896 to 11 March 1899.

Later life

Lissner died in 1902 and was buried in

Toowong Cemetery Toowong Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery on the corner of Frederick Street and Mt Coot-tha Road, Toowong, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was established in 1866 and formally opened in 1875. It is Queensland's largest ceme ...

.Lissner Isidor Seigfrid
— Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 17 August 2014. The heritage-listed

Lissner Park Boer War Veterans Memorial Kiosk and Lissner Park is a heritage-listed memorial at Bridge Street, Charters Towers City, Charters Towers, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1883 to 1988. It was added to the Queens ...

in Charters Towers is named after him.

References

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