Henry Beor

Henry Rogers Beor (7 February 1846 – 25 December 1880) was a politician in colonial Queensland and Attorney-General of Queensland.[1]

Henry Beor

QC
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for Bowen
In office
23 April 1877 – 25 December 1880
Preceded byFrancis Amhurst
Succeeded byPope Alexander Cooper
Personal details
Born
Henry Rogers Beor

(1846-02-07)7 February 1846
Swansea, Wales
Died25 December 1880(1880-12-25) (aged 34)
On board the SS Rotorua, Tasman Sea
Resting placeBurial at sea
NationalityWelsh
Spouse(s)Marion Taylor
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
OccupationBarrister

Early life

Beor was the son of Henry Beor, a solicitor at Swansea, in South Wales. He graduated at Oxford, and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1870.[2] In 1875, he went to Queensland, and was admitted to the bar there in the same year.

Politics

Entering the Queensland Legislative Assembly as member for Bowen in 1877,[3] he succeeded the late Mr. Justice Ratcliffe Pring as Attorney-General in the first McIlwraith Ministry in June 1880.[2] He in the same year was made Q.C.

Later life

Shortly afterwards his health failed, and he shot himself on board the steamer Rotorua, whilst on the passage from Sydney to Auckland, in New Zealand. The fatal event, the outcome of nervous depression, took place on 25 December 1880, and he was buried at sea.[2][4]

References
  1. Bell, Jacqueline. "Beor, Henry Rogers (1846–1880)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 12 November 2013 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  2. Mennell, Philip (1892). "Beor, Hon. Henry Rogers" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
  3. "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  4. "Death of the Attorney-General". The Queenslander. XIX (281). Queensland, Australia. 1 January 1881. p. 25. Retrieved 13 March 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
Parliament of Queensland
Preceded by
Francis Amhurst		 Member for Bowen
1877–1880		 Succeeded by
Pope Alexander Cooper
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