Henry Beor

Henry Beor QC
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Bowen
In office 23 April 1877 – 25 December 1880
Preceded by	Francis Amhurst
Succeeded by	Pope Alexander Cooper
Personal details
Born	Henry Rogers Beor 7 February 1846 Swansea, Wales
Died	25 December 1880 (aged 34) On board the SS Rotorua, Tasman Sea
Resting place	Burial at sea
Nationality	Welsh
Spouse(s)	Marion Taylor
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge
Occupation	Barrister
Religion	Church of England

Henry Rogers Beor (7 February 1846 – 25 December 1880) was a politician in colonial Queensland and Attorney-General of Queensland.^[1]

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.^[2] 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,^[3] he succeeded the late Mr. Justice Ratcliffe Pring as Attorney-General in the first McIlwraith Ministry in June 1880.^[2] 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.^[2][4]

References

1. Bell, Jacqueline. "Beor, Henry Rogers (1846–1880)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
2. Mennell, Philip (1892). " Beor, Hon. Henry Rogers". The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. Wikisource 
3. "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
4. "Death of the Attorney-General.". The Queenslander. XIX, (281). Queensland, Australia. 1 January 1881. p. 25. Retrieved 13 March 2016 – via National Library of Australia.