Forrest, Sir John

Forrest, Sir John

▪ Australian explorer and statesman
also called (1918)  Baron Forrest Of Bunbury 
born Aug. 22, 1847, Preston Point, near Bunbury, Western Australia
died Sept. 3, 1918, at sea

      explorer and statesman who led pioneer expeditions into Australia's western interior. As Western Australia's first premier (1890–1901), he sponsored public works construction and negotiated the state's entry into the Australian Commonwealth in 1901.

      After entering Western Australia's survey department in 1865, Forrest in 1869 led a search expedition for the missing explorer Ludwig Leichhardt and, in 1870, an expedition from Perth along the Great Australian Bight to Adelaide. In 1874 he completed a 2,700-mile (4,300-kilometre) crossing of the continent from Champion Bay to the telegraph line between Adelaide and Port Darwin.

      Forrest served as state surveyor general from 1883 to 1890, when he became premier of Western Australia. Serving also as colonial treasurer, he sponsored harbour works and railroad development and introduced a plan for supplying water to the goldfields. He also worked for woman suffrage and for expanding land settlement. In the negotiations for Australian federation between 1887 and 1901, he championed the interests of smaller states, winning railroad and tariff benefits for Western Australia. He was knighted in 1891.

      Elected to the first federal Parliament in 1901, he served as minister of defense (1901–03), as treasurer in several Liberal ministries between 1905 and 1914, and in the coalition wartime ministry of William Morris Hughes (1917–18). In 1918 he became the first person born in Australia to enter the British peerage; he died without male issue, and the title lapsed. He wrote Explorations in Australia (1875) and Notes on Western Australia (1884).

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