Henry Rogers Beor (7 February 1846 – 25 December 1880) was a politician in colonial

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and

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Early life

Beor was the son of Henry Beor, a solicitor at Swansea, in South Wales. He graduated at Oxford, and was called to the bar at the

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in 1870. In 1875, he went to Queensland, and was admitted to the bar there in the same year.

Politics

Entering the

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as member for Bowen in 1877, he succeeded the late Mr. Justice

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in the first McIlwraith Ministry in June 1880. He in the same year was made

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Later life

Shortly afterwards his health failed, and he shot himself on board the steamer ''Rotorua'', whilst on the passage from Sydney to

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, in New Zealand. The fatal event, the outcome of nervous depression, took place on 25 December 1880, and he was buried at sea.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beor, Henry Rogers Attorneys-General of Queensland Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1846 births 1880 deaths Colony of Queensland people Australian politicians who committed suicide 19th-century Australian politicians Suicides by firearm in Australia 1880s suicides Deaths by firearm in international waters