Richard Joseph Smith
Member of the Legislative Council in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia
About Richard Joseph Smith
Lived 1819 – 1883 (aged 63–64). Richard Joseph Smith was an Australian and British politician, squatter, civil servant, entrepreneur, business owner and commissioner of Crown Lands (Australia).
Richard Joseph Smith (1819 – 15 November 1883) was a member of both the New South Wales Legislative Council and the Queensland Legislative Council.
Early life
Smith was born at Leicester, England in 1819 to Richard Smith and arrived in New South Wales as a young boy around 1824. By 1847 he had travelled to Brisbane and established a boiling down works at Kangaroo Point. In 1849 he established the Town Marie Boiling Down Works on the Bremer River at Karalee, near Ipswich.
After Queensland had separated from New South Wales, Smith was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council on 3 July 1863.
After his resignation he became a crown law agent in Ipswich, before his appointment as a land commissioner in the Moreton area.
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Who was Richard Joseph Smith?
member of the Legislative Council in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia (1819–1883)
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Richard Joseph Smith was born in 1819 in Leicester.
When did Richard Joseph Smith die?
Richard Joseph Smith died in 1883 in Ipswich.
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Richard Joseph Smith was a politician, squatter, civil servant, entrepreneur, business owner and commissioner of Crown Lands (Australia).
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Richard Joseph Smith was Australian and British.
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