{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Henry Beor | honorific_suffix = '''{{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|QC}}''' | image = StateLibQld 1 131563 Portrait Honourable Henry R. Beor, ca. 1880.jpg | caption = | constituency_AM1 = Bowen | assembly1 = Queensland Legislative | term_start1 = 23 April 1877 | term_end1 = 25 December 1880 | predecessor1 = Francis Amhurst | successor1 = Pope Alexander Cooper | birth_date = {{Birth date|1846|2|7|df=y}} | birth_place = Swansea, Wales | death_date = {{death date and age|1880|12|25|1846|2|7|df=y}} | death_place = On board the SS Rotorua, Tasman Sea | resting_place = Burial at sea | birth_name = Henry Rogers Beor | party = | other_party = | spouse = Marion Taylor | alma_mater = St John's College, Cambridge | occupation = Barrister | relations = }}
'''Henry Rogers Beor''' (7 February 1846 – 25 December 1880) was a politician in colonial Queensland and Attorney-General of Queensland.<ref> {{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=Jacqueline |last=Bell |title=Beor, Henry Rogers (1846–1880) |id2=beor-henry-rogers-2980 |accessdate=12 November 2013 }}</ref>
== 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.<ref name="Mennell" /> 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,<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=3470630182|accessdate= 1 February 2015}}</ref> he succeeded the late Mr. Justice Ratcliffe Pring as Attorney-General in the first McIlwraith Ministry in June 1880.<ref name="Mennell" /> 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.<ref name="Mennell">{{cite Australasia|Beor, Hon. Henry Rogers}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20704357|title=Death of the Attorney-General.|date=1 January 1881|newspaper=The Queenslander|issue=281|location=Queensland, Australia|volume=XIX|page=25|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=13 March 2016}}</ref>
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