Frederick Innes
Politician
1816 – 1882
Who was Frederick Innes?
Frederick Maitland Innes was Premier of Tasmania from 4 November 1872 to 4 August 1873.
The son of Francis Innes, army officer, and his wife Prudence, née Edgerleyan, Innes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Innes was educated at Heriot's, Edinburgh, and Kelso Grammar School in Kelso. On leaving school he was employed by his uncle, manager of estates for his relation, the Duke of Roxburghe. In 1836, Innes emigrated to Tasmania where he arrived in Hobart in 1837, joining the Hobart Town Courier. A few years later he returned to Great Britain, and contributed to the press in London, and to the Penny Cyclopaedia.
Innes again went to Tasmania in 1843 and was associated with the Observer and other papers at Hobart. In about the year 1846 he was working as a journalist at Launceston and later took up farming. With the introduction of responsible government he was elected in September 1856 as the member for Morven in the Tasmanian House of Assembly. He was colonial treasurer in four successive ministries, the first William Weston, the Francis Smith, the second Weston, and the Thomas Chapman, from 25 April 1857 to 1 November 1862, and colonial secretary from 1 November 1862 to 20 January 1863. He had now become a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, in 1864 was elected chairman of committees, and from 1868 to 1872 president of the council. He then resigned his seat and re-entered the house of assembly.
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- Born
- Aug 11, 1816
Edinburgh - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Died
- May 11, 1882
Launceston
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on July 23, 2013
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