Charles Barton | |
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Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Maryborough | |
In office 11 March 1902 –16 June 1902 Servingwith John Norman | |
Preceded by | John Annear |
Succeeded by | Henry Garde |
Personal details | |
Born | Charles Hastings Barton 1 January 1829 Geneva,Switzerland |
Died | 16 June 1902 73) Maryborough,Queensland,Australia | (aged
Resting place | Maryborough Cemetery |
Political party | Labour Party |
Spouse(s) | Catherine Basedow,Elisabeth Basedow |
Relations | Geoffrey Barton (brother) |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Occupation | School teacher |
Charles Hastings Barton (1 January 1829 - 16 June 1902) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. [1]
Barton was born in Geneva,Switzerland,the son of Charles Cutts Barton and his wife Emillia Ann Barton (née Middleton). His brother was Geoffrey Barton,who was to become a Major-general in the British Army. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church,Oxford,where he matriculated in 1848 and graduated B.A. in 1852. [2]
In 1853 Barton emigrated to Adelaide,where he was a Bachelor of Arts tutor and took up sheep farming and winegrowing. He became editor and part-owner of the German-language weekly Süd-Australische Zeitung ,and when that was taken over in 1863 to become the Australische Zeitung ,co-founded the Tanunda Deutsche Zeitung with Friedrich Basedow, [3] with assistance from Carl Muecke. In 1864 he took over the Northern Star,which he re-launched as The Kapunda Herald . Found insolvent,he fled his South Australian creditors, [4] and in 1867 arrived in Queensland, [5] where he was the editor and later,the lead-writer of the Maryborough Chronicle . He then was the classics and second master at Maryborough Boys Grammar School from 1881 until 1896. [1]
Barton was married twice,firstly to Catharine M. Basedow whom he married at Tanunda in 1859 and together had a son and three daughters. She died in 1863;he then married Catherine's sister,Elisabeth Basedow,also in Tanunda and this marriage produced another two sons and five daughters. Barton died in Maryborough in June 1902 [1] and his funeral proceeded from his Kent Street residence to the Maryborough Cemetery. [6]
Barton,representing the Labour Party,won one of the two positions for the two-member seat of Maryborough at the 1902 Queensland state election. He served alongside John Norman,also of the Labour Party. [7] Barton died three months after the election and before he could take his seat in the House. [1]
C. H. Barton married Catharine Magdalena Basedow (died 1863) in 1859. Their children were:
He married Anna Elisabeth Basedow in 1865
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