Frederick Henry Alexander Forth (11 February 1808 – 1876) was a British colonial administrator. He was Lieutenant-Governor in the

British West Indies The British West Indies (BWI) were colonized British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grena ...

, Colonial Treasurer of Hong Kong and magistrate of

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. Forth was born on 11 February 1808 to diplomat Nathaniel Parker Forth and Eliza Petrie. He was an army officer and Lieutenant-Governor in the

for some six years, where he was sent to initiate a government on the separation of those islands from the

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. He was the Council President of the

Turks and Caicos The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; and ) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and n ...

from 1848 to 1854. He was also the Colonial Treasurer of Hong Kong and ex officio member of the

Legislative Council of Hong Kong The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong. It sits under China's " one country, two systems" constitutional arrangement, and is the power centre of Hong Ko ...

. He was a captain in the Scots Fusiliers and was appointed by Governor Sir

George Arthur Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet (21 June 1784 – 19 September 1854) was Lieutenant Governor of British Honduras from 1814 to 1822 and of Van Diemen's Land (present-day Tasmania) from 1823 to 1836. The campaign against Aboriginal Tasmani ...

in the first visiting magistracy created in

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. He prepared the first code of standing regulations for the management of some thousands of European convicts employed upon the public works and roads of the colony. Forth married Caroline Jemima Sherson. He died in Tasmania in 1876. His daughter Edith Ann Mary Forth married

Phineas Ryrie Phineas Ryrie, JP (16 July 1829 – 22 February 1892) was a Scottish tea merchant in Hong Kong. He was the Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and the first Chairman of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Background Ryrie w ...

. Through his son Robert De Lancey Forth, Forth's great-great-grandson is Australian-American media mogul

Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch ( ; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Forth, Frederick Henry Alexander 1808 births 1876 deaths Financial Secretaries of Hong Kong Government officials of Hong Kong Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong Royal Scots Fusiliers officers Council Presidents of the Turks and Caicos Islands