Josiah Boothby CMG (1837–1916) was a

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in the colony of

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. Boothby was the fifth son of the

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(who later became a judge in the

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), and was born at

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on 8 April 1837. He went to the colony with his father in 1853, and in that year became Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office, Clerk in the

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Office in 1854, Chief Clerk in the Audit Office in 1856, Chief Clerk in the Chief Secretary's Office in 1859, also Government

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and Superintendent of

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in 1860, Assistant Secretary and Government Statist in 1866, and Under Secretary and Government Statist in 1868. He was

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Corresponding Member of the Statistical Society,

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, in 1869; was appointed Trustee of the

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, South Australia, in 1869; a Commissioner for International Exhibitions in 1872; joint editor of a work "South Australia: its History, Resources, and Productions," published by authority of Government in 1876, and Executive Commissioner representing South Australia at the

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Universal Exhibition in 1878, in connection with which he was created C.M.G., and received the Cross of the

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. Owing to a dispute in connection with the expenses of the Paris Exhibition he retired from the public service of South Australia in 1880.

References

1837 births 1916 deaths Public servants of South Australia People from Nottingham British emigrants to the Colony of South Australia Australian statisticians 19th-century Australian public servants {{Australia-gov-bio-stub