- Frederick Innes
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office = Premier of Tasmania
term_start =4 November 1872
term_end =4 August 1873
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birth_place =Edinburgh ,Scotland , UK
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footnotes =Frederick Maitland Innes (
11 August ,1816 –11 May 1882 ) wasPremier of Tasmania from4 November 1872 to4 August 1873 .The son of an army officer, Innes was born in
Edinburgh ,Scotland . On leaving school he entered the office of his uncle, a writer to the signet at Edinburgh, but soon emigrated toTasmania where he arrived in 1833. A few years later he returned toGreat Britain , and contributed to the press in London, and to the "Penny Cyclopaedia ".He again went to Tasmania and was associated with the "Observer" and other papers at
Hobart . In about the year 1846 he was working as a journalist at Launceston and later took up farming. With the introduction of responsible government he was elected in September 1856 as the member for Morven in theTasmanian House of Assembly . He was colonial treasurer in four successive ministries, the firstWilliam Weston , the Francis Smith, the second Weston, and theThomas Chapman , from25 April 1857 to1 November 1862 , and colonial secretary from1 November 1862 to20 January 1863 . He had now become a member of theTasmanian Legislative Council , in 1864 was elected chairman of committees, and from 1868 to 1872 president of the council. He then resigned his seat and re-entered the house of assembly.On 4 November 1872, allying himself with some members he had previously opposed, he became premier and colonial secretary until 4 August 1873, when the
Alfred Kennerley ministry came in and Innes found himself isolated. In March 1875 rather to the surprise of his former friends he joined this ministry as colonial treasurer, and held this position until July 1876. He then retired from the house of assembly, was elected to the legislative council in September 1877, and in 1880 was again made president of the council. He died at Launceston on11 May 1882 . He married a Miss Grey who survived him with sons and daughters.Innes, an able man of moderate views, was an excellent treasurer. When he first took office the finances of the colony were in a very serious condition, and he carried a heavy burden during his five and a half years of office.
References
* [http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/history/tasparl/innesfC.htm Parliamentary Library profile]
*Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Frederick|Last=Innes|Link=http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogI-K.html#innes1
**"The Mercury", Hobart,13 May 1882 ;
**J. Fenton, "A History of Tasmania";
**J. H. Heaton,Australian Dictionary of Dates .
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