About Francis Longmore
Lived 1826 – 1898 (aged 71–72). Francis Longmore was a politician.
Francis Longmore (1826 – 1 May 1898) was a politician in colonial Victoria, commissioner of railways and roads 1869 to 1870 and for Crown Lands 1875 and 1877 to 1880.
Longmore was the youngest son of George Longmore, a farmer in Monaghan, Ireland. He was educated at Mr. Blackey's Presbyterian Academy, Monaghan, and in 1839 went to Australia with the members of his family, who settled in New South Wales, where he followed farming pursuits till 1851, when he started business in Sydney as a commission agent. The next year he moved to Victoria, where from 1854 he farmed land in the Learmonth district.
In 1856 Longmore began to take an active part in public affairs, being a strong opponent of the abuses of the land system.
Longmore died in Malvern, Victoria, Melbourne on 1 May 1898.
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