{{Short description|Australian businessman and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable|'''The Hon''']] | name = Frederick Brentnall | honorific_suffix = | image = | caption = | office1 = [[Queensland Legislative Council|Member of the Queensland Legislative Council]] | term_start1 = 17 April 1886 | term_end1 = 23 March 1922 | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1834|6|17}} | birth_place = [[Riddings]], Derbyshire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1925|1|11|1834|6|17}} | death_place = [[Brisbane]], [[Queensland]], Australia | resting_place = [[Balmoral Cemetery, Brisbane|Balmoral Cemetery]] | birth_name = Frederick Thomas Brentnall | party = | other_party = | spouse = [[Elizabeth Brentnall|Elizabeth Watson]] (m.1867 d.1909) | occupation = [[Chairman|Company chairman]] | relations = | alma_mater = }}
Hon. '''Frederick Thomas Brentnall''' (17 June 1834 – 11 January 1925)<ref name=adb> {{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=Ronald |last=Lawson |title=Brentnall, Frederick Thomas (1834–1925) |id2=brentnall-frederick-thomas-3050 |accessdate=15 November 2013 }}</ref> was a Wesleyan preacher in [[New South Wales]] and a journalist, businessman and politician in [[Queensland]], Australia. He was a Member of the [[Queensland Legislative Council]].
== Early life == Brentnall was born at [[Riddings]], [[Derbyshire]] and educated at [[Alfreton]].
== Religious life == Brentnall was sent by the British Wesleyan Conference to [[New South Wales]] in 1863, along with [[Charles Stead]], [[Richard Sellors]], [[W. E. Bourne]], and Manning, to join the ranks of the Wesleyan Methodist ministry in the colony.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155428052 |title=A Veteran Promoted |newspaper=[[The Methodist]] |volume=XXV |issue=24 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=10 June 1916 |accessdate=17 April 2025 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> An affection of the throat, however, necessitated his resignation about 1883.
== Business life == Brentnall then bought an interest in the Brisbane ''[[Telegraph (Brisbane)|Telegraph]]'', and joined the literary staff, becoming Chairman of the Company upon the retirement of the Hon. [[James Cowlishaw]] in Oct. 1885. Brentnall was a director of several companies, including the [[Queensland Deposit Bank|Queensland Deposit Bank and Building Society]], and the Queensland General Insurance Company, Ltd.
== Politics == Brentnall was appointed a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council on 17 April 1886.<ref>{{cite Australasia|Brentnall, Hon. Frederick Thomas}}</ref> Although a lifetime appointment, he held it until the abolition of the Council on 23 March 1922.<ref>{{Cite QldMLA|accessdate=27 April 2020}}</ref>
Brentnall was also a member of the [[Coorparoo Shire Council]] and served as its chairman in 1888 and 1889.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article177081402 |title=Brisbane and Environs. |newspaper=[[Telegraph (Brisbane)|The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947)]] |location=Brisbane, Qld. |date=6 October 1925 |access-date=24 January 2016 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
== Later life == Brentnall died in [[Brisbane]] in 1925 and was buried in [[Balmoral Cemetery, Brisbane|Balmoral Cemetery]].<ref name=bcc>[https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=163 Brentnall Frederick Thomas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217101147/https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=163 |date=17 February 2015 }} – Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 17 February 2015.</ref> He was survived by two daughters: Flora (Mrs E. B. Harris) and Charlotte Amelia Brentnall.<ref name=adb/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article180685065|title=Ninetieth Birthday - Hon. F. T. Brentnall Varied and Useful Career - The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947) - 17 Jun 1924|newspaper=Telegraph|date=17 June 1924 |access-date=2016-10-27}}</ref> His daughter, Flora Harris would help convene the Women's War Memorial Committee in Brisbane, which was instrumental in fundraising to establish a fountain in [[ANZAC Square, Brisbane|Anzac Square]], following [[World War I|WWI]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=McKay|first=Judith|date=2014|title=A WOMEN'S TRIBUTE TO WAR|url=https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:341137/ff9_1_2014_p7_9.pdf|journal=Fryer Folios|pages=7–9}}</ref> This fountain which sits alongside the carved panel carved by [[Daphne Mayo]], honoured the men who fell during WWI.
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