# Alfred Compigne

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{{short description|Australian politician}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| name             = Alfred Compigne
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| image            = StateLibQld 1 101316.jpg
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| office1          = [Member of the Queensland Legislative Council](/source/Queensland_Legislative_Council)
| term_start1      = 1 May 1860
| term_end1        = 23 April 1864
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1818|2|7|df=y}}
| birth_place      = Gosford, [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire), England
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|1909|7|4|1818|2|7|df=y}}
| death_place      = [Brisbane](/source/Brisbane), [Queensland](/source/Queensland), Australia
| resting_place    = [Toowong Cemetery](/source/Toowong_Cemetery)
| birth_name       = Alfred William Compigne
| spouse           = Jessie Collins (m.1852 d.1911)
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| occupation       = [Pastoralist](/source/Pastoral_farming), [Police magistrate](/source/Police_magistrate)
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'''Alfred William Compigne''' (February 7, 1818 – July 4, 1909) was a settler and politician of [Queensland](/source/Queensland), Australia. He was a [Member of the Queensland Legislative Council](/source/Member_of_the_Queensland_Legislative_Council).

==Early life==
Alfred William Compigné was born at [Gosport](/source/Gosport), [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire), England on 2 February 1818. He immigrated to [Sydney](/source/Sydney), [New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales) on 30 June 1839, coming to Queensland in 1846.<ref name="obit" />

Alfred Compigné acquired [Nindooinbah Station](/source/Nindooinbah_Station) on the [Albert River](/source/Albert_River_(South_East_Queensland)) and was the first pastoralist to take up land on the coast south of [Coomera](/source/Coomera%2C_Queensland).  He applied successfully for the leasehold of two properties to the south of Brisbane settlement being Dungogie and Murry Jerry runs in March 1852.  Just five months later in August 1952 he transferred the coastal runs to [William Duckett White](/source/William_Duckett_White) of [Beaudesert Station](/source/Beaudesert_Station).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Longhurst|first=Robert|title=Nerang shire : a history to 1949|year=1994|publisher=Albert Shire Council|isbn=978-0-646-20287-7|publication-date=1994}}</ref> In his footnotes regarding Compigne, Longhurst accounts that while Compigne ran up to 7,000 sheep on Nindooinbah Station he eventually failed as a squatter.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}

==Politics==
Compigne was appointed as a founding Member of the  [Queensland Legislative Council](/source/Queensland_Legislative_Council) on 1 May 1860. He served for four years before resigning on 23 April 1864.<ref name=QP>[http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=3721397963 Compigne, Alfred William]; [Government of Queensland](/source/Government_of_Queensland). Retrieved 4 March 2015.</ref>

==Later life==
Compigne died from senile decay at his residence, ''Richmond Villa'', on Sunday 4 July 1909<ref name=obit>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19604117 |title=DEATH OF A PIONEER. |newspaper=[The Brisbane Courier](/source/The_Brisbane_Courier) |date=5 July 1909 |access-date=2 February 2014 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and was buried in [Toowong Cemetery](/source/Toowong_Cemetery).<ref name=bcc>[https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=150801 Compigne Alfred William] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402104651/https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=150801 |date=2 April 2015 }} &mdash; [Brisbane City Council](/source/Brisbane_City_Council). Retrieved 4 March 2015.</ref>

==See also==
* [Members of the Queensland Legislative Council, 1860–1869](/source/Members_of_the_Queensland_Legislative_Council%2C_1860%E2%80%931869)

==References==
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Category:1818 births
Category:1909 deaths
Category:English emigrants to colonial Australia
Category:Burials at Toowong Cemetery
Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Council
Category:19th-century Australian politicians
Category:Pre-Separation Queensland

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