William Forlonge

William Jack Forlonge (15 May 1813 – 15 September 1890) was a pastoralist and politician in colonial Victoria and New South Wales, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, the Victorian Legislative Assembly and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. William Forlonge, his brother Andrew and their mother went to Leipzig with his mother in 1826 where William worked in a wool sorting house for three years. and resigned his seat.

Forlonge died in Dubbo, New South Wales, on .

Family He married his first cousin Marion Templeton in New South Wales on 13 May 1837, by whom he had eleven children.

His eldest daughter, (Christina) Eliza, married Reginald Stuart Poole, archaeologist and Orientalist.

His second daughter, Janet, married William Barton Wright, railway engineer, who was himself father of Edward William Barton-Wright, pioneer of hybrid martial arts in the West.

He married secondly in 1889, after his first wife's death, Elizabeth Mary Nolan: no further issue.