Archibald Archer
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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| name = Archibald Archer
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| order = 12th
| office = Treasurer of Queensland
| term_start = 5 January 1882
| term_end = 13 November 1883
| predecessor = Thomas McIlwraith
| successor = James Francis Garrick
| constituency = Blackall
| majority =
| constituency_AM1 = Rockhampton
| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start1 = 27 July 1867
| term_end1 = 19 November 1869
| predecessor1 = Thomas FitzGerald
| successor1 = Henry Milford
| term_start2 = 5 May 1888
| term_end2 = 4 April 1896
| predecessor2 = John Ferguson
| successor2 = William Kidston
| alongside2 = William Pattison, George Curtis
| constituency_AM3 = Blackall
| assembly3 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start3 = 28 November 1878
| term_end3 = 23 January 1886
| predecessor3 = Peter MacDonald
| successor3 = William Pattison
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1820|3|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Fife, Scotland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1902|2|6|1820|3|13|df=y}}
| death_place = Larvik, Norway
| nationality = Scottish
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| occupation = Grazier, Agent-General
| relations = Archer brothers
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Archibald Archer M.L.A., J.P., (18 March 1820 – 6 February 1902)
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was a Queensland politician, a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, and Treasurer of Queensland. He was one of the Archer brothers, an early Queensland pioneering family.
Personal life
Archibald Archer was born in Fife, Scotland on 18 March 1820, the son of William Archer, of Larvik, Norway.{{cite Australasia|Archer, Archibald}} At age 5, Archer went with his father to Norway and was educated in Norway. Later he spent five years in an engineering establishment in Scotland. Archer emigrated to Australia, where he arrived in 1842, but stayed only five months, subsequently spending thirteen years in the South Sea and Sandwich Islands. In the latter he was engaged on coffee and sugar plantations.
Returning to Queensland in 1860, Archer began residence at Gracemere station.
In 1896, Archer left Australia{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article68274945 |title=DEATH OF MR. A. ARCHER. |newspaper=The Capricornian |location=Rockhampton, Qld |date=22 February 1902 |accessdate=26 February 2013 |page=31 |publisher=National Library of Australia |archive-date=24 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240124050429/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/68274945 |url-status=live }} and died at the family's Norwegian estate, Tolderedden, Larvik, Norway on 6 February 1902 aged 81 years.Death certificate for Archibald Archer (original in Norwegian plus English translation) within Supreme Court Central District Rockhampton Ecclesiastical Files 42/1902, accessed 26 February 2013 at Queensland State Archives
Public life
Archer was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the member for Rockhampton from 27 July 1867 to 19 November 1869,{{Cite QldMLA|accessdate=27 April 2020}} during which he assisted with passing the Land Act of 1868.
On 28 November 1878, Archer was elected again to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the member for the Electoral district of Blackall which title he possessed until 23 January 1886. During this term, he was Treasurer and Secretary for Public Instruction in the first Thomas McIlwraith Government from 5 January 1882 to 13 November 1883.
On 5 May 1888, Archer was elected again to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the member for Rockhampton (again) which he held until 4 April 1896. Archer was a strong advocate of the subdivision of Queensland. In 1892 Mr. Archer visited England in company with John Ferguson as a deputation on behalf of the Central Queensland Territorial Separation League.
See also
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{{s-ttl |title = Member for Rockhampton|years=1867–1869}}
{{s-aft | after = Henry Milford}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Member for Blackall|years=1878–1886}}
{{s-aft|after=William Pattison}}
{{s-bef | before = John Ferguson}}
{{s-ttl |title = Member for Rockhampton|years=1888–1896|alongside=William Pattison, George Curtis}}
{{s-aft | after = William Kidston}}
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Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Category:Treasurers of Queensland