Queensland Family History Society Inc
QFHS Calendar Event
Members Lounge - Presenting … Sir Augustus Charles Gregory.
Starts: 17 Sep 2025 at 1:00 PM
Ends: 17 Sep 2025 at 3:00 PM
Notes:
This event will be held online and in-person at the QFHS Family History Research Centre i.e. a HYBRID meeting.
Guest Speaker: Gary Bacon
SIR AUGUSTUS CHARLES GREGORY KCMG, MLA, FRGS, DistGM, AN ICON AUSTRALIAN EXPLORER, EXEMPLARY CITIZEN AND NOTABLE FREEMASON
The life of this extraordinary man (Birth: 1 August 1819: Farnsfield, Nottinghamshire, England; Death: 25 June 1905: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) will be covered in three tranches, viz.
- Explorer on the Australian Plateau
- Early Queensland State Administrator and Community Leader
- Patriarch of Queensland Freemasonry.
He has been referred to as the ‘Bradman of Australian Explorers’ but few today have heard of him. He was also Queensland’s first Surveyor General and Land Commissioner in 1859.