John William Foster Rogers (1842 – 2 December 1908) was an Australian politician. Born in

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chaplain Thomas George Rogers and his wife Sarah ''née'' Smith, he arrived in Australia around 1849 but returned to England in 1852. In 1862 he moved to Australia for good and began teaching in

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; in 1870 he moved to

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and ran a grammar school in

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from around 1873. He married twice: firstly to Kate Shanahan, with whom he had two sons, and secondly, in 1881, to Letitia Catherine Maloney, with whom he had three children. In the late 1870s he was headmaster of Melbourne Hebrew School, after which he headed a school in St Kilda before he was appointed inspector of schools in

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in 1883. He visited England again in 1887. In 1894 he was elected to the

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as the member for

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, serving until 1897. Rogers died in

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in 1908.

Publications

* ''Grammar and Logic in the Nineteenth Century'' (1888)

References

1842 births 1908 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly English emigrants to Australia Politicians from Leeds People from Ballarat Australian headmasters Politicians from Melbourne Politicians from Sydney 19th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-politician-stub