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John Forrest Forrest, 1st Baron

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John Forrest Forrest, 1st Baron 1847-1918, Australian explorer and statesman. In 1869 he led an expedition to the west of Lake Barlee in search of the missing Friedrich Leichhardt , and the following year he returned from Perth along the Great Bight to Adelaide. After other explorations he became surveyor general of Western Australia (1883) and its first premier (1890-1901). In 1901 he became postmaster general of the commonwealth. Successively he was commonwealth minister of defense (1901-3), minister of home affairs (1903-4), and treasurer (1905-7, 1909-10, 1913-14, and 1917-18). His writings include Explorations in Australia (1875) and Western Australia (1884-87).

Bibliography: See biography by F. K. Crowley (1971).


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