{{Short description|Australian politician (1818–1878)}} {{for|the Scottish footballer|Fred Forbes}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = '''The Honourable''' | name = Frederick Forbes | honorific_suffix = | image = StateLibQld 1 87444 Frederick Augustus Forbes.jpg | caption = | office1 = Speaker of the Queensland Parliament | term_start1 = 7 November 1871 | term_end1 = 1 September 1873 | predecessor1 = Arthur Macalister | successor1 = William Henry Walsh | constituency1 = West Moreton | constituency_AM2 = Ipswich | assembly2 = Queensland Legislative | term_start2 = 10 May 1860 | term_end2 = 30 May 1863 | predecessor2 = New seat | successor2 = Ratcliffe Pring | alongside2 = Patrick O'Sullivan, Arthur Macalister | constituency_AM3 = Warrego | assembly3 = Queensland Legislative | term_start3 = 25 March 1865 | term_end3 = 8 July 1867 | predecessor3 = New seat | successor3 = Graham Mylne | constituency_AM4 = West Moreton | assembly4 = Queensland Legislative | term_start4 = 28 September 1868 | term_end4 = 18 November 1873 | predecessor4 = Joshua Peter Bell | successor4 = Seat abolished | alongside4 = George Thorn, Jr., Samuel Hodgson, John Ferrett | birth_date = {{Birth date|1818|9|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Liverpool, New South Wales | death_date = {{Death date and age|1878|7|9|1818|9|30|df=y}} | death_place = Ipswich, Queensland | resting_place = | birth_name = | party = | other_party = | spouse = Margaret Milner | occupation = Storekeeper, Grazier | relations = }}
'''Frederick Augustus Forbes''' (30 September 1818 – 9 July 1878) was a politician in colonial Queensland and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.<ref name = QLdesc>[http://bishop.slq.qld.gov.au/webclient/MetadataManager?pid=87444&descriptive_only=true Description of Image of Forbes in the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland]</ref>
==Early life== Forbes was born on 30 September 1818 in Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, to Francis Ewen, a merchant, and his wife Mary Ann Taboweur.<ref name = QLdesc/> He attended William Cape's school and The King's School, Parramatta, before spending several years at sea.<ref name =ANB> {{Australian Dictionary of Biography |last=Morrison |first= A.A. |year= 1972 |id2=forbes-frederick-augustus-3547 |title= Forbes, Frederick Augustus (1818 - 1878) |accessdate= 14 July 2013 }} </ref> When his father died he took over his father's store in Liverpool in 1842 before marrying Margaret Milner in 1844.<ref name = ANB/>
== Politics == Forbes soon moved to Ipswich where he opened another store and became involved in the Queensland Separation movement.<ref name="ANB" /> Forbes became involved in politics and in 1860, along with Arthur Macalister and Patrick O'Sullivan, was elected to the new seat of Ipswich in the Queensland Legislative Assembly which he served until his defeat in 1863.<ref name="qp">{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=166|accessdate= 18 January 2015}}</ref> He later served in the seat of Warrego from March 1865 to June 1867<ref name="qp" /> and the seat of West Moreton from September 1868 until his retirement in November 1873.<ref name="qp" /> During this final term, Forbes spent two years as Speaker from 1871 to 1873.<ref name="qp" />
== Later life == Though Forbes declared bankruptcy in 1870 because of the 1866–67 money crisis, he managed to quickly rebuild and was able to continue investing in businesses until his death. Forbes died as a result of an accident at Ipswich, Queensland, 9 July 1878 at the age of 59 and was survived by eleven out of his seventeen children.<ref name = ANB/>
== See also == * Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1860–1863; 1863–1867; 1868–1870; 1870–1871; 1871–1873
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Forbes, Frederick}} Category:Speakers of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Category:1818 births Category:1878 deaths Category:Politicians from Sydney Category:19th-century Australian politicians Category:People educated at The King's School, Parramatta