Jordan, Henry
Personal
Birth Date:
22 November 1818 (Lincoln)
Death Date:
30 June 1890 (Brisbane, Queensland)
Parents:
Reverend John Jordan and Elizabeth (nee Jefferies)
Family:
Sarah Elizabeth Hopkins Turner on 9 June 1857 in Brisbane, 7 sons, 4 daughters
Education:
Bramwell's Boarding School; Kingsford College, Bristol; Studied dentistry at London Institution for Diseases of the Teeth
Religion:
Wesleyan
Career
Practised dentistry for 10 years in Derby, UK; Member, Odontological Society of Great Britain; Missionary, Wesleyan Missionary Society at Mount Barker, South Australia; Dentist, Sydney; Member, Queensland Board of Education ; Visiting chaplain at Brisbane jail; Commissioner and emigration agent, London, 1861-1864; Established Tygum Sugar Plantation in Logan from 1866 to 1869; journalist and publicist; Registrar-General of Queensland from 1875 to 1883; Director, Australian Mutual Life and Finance Co; Agent -General for Queensland, 1884 to 1889
Parliamentary Representation
House | Party | Electorate | From | To | Elected/Departure Reason |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Assembly | NONE | Town Of Brisbane | 11 May 1860 | 17 Oct 1860 | |
Assembly | NONE | East Moreton | 23 Dec 1868 | 20 Oct 1871 | By-election |
Assembly | NONE | South Brisbane | 21 Aug 1883 | 12 May 1888 | |
Assembly | NONE | Brisbane South | 12 May 1888 | 30 Jun 1890 | Died in office |
Parliamentary Service
Description | From | To |
---|---|---|
Secretary for Public Lands | 30 Aug 1887 | 13 Jun 1888 |
Additional Information
Notes:
Honorary member of the Royal Statistical Society of London, 1876; He strongly opposed Kanaka labour and therefore used white labour on his sugar plantation; As Secretary for Public Lands in 1887-88, he wrote a pamphlet on the amendments of Charles Dutton to the Land Act and succeeded in appointing Professor Edward Mason Shelton of Kansas State Agricultural College as instructor in agriculture
Sources:
Image courtesy of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Neg: 73296; Morrison, AA, 'Jordan, Henry (1818 - 1890)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, pp 492-493; Waterson, DB, Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament: 1860-1929, 2nd revised edition (Sydney: Casket Publications, 2001)
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