Frederick Isaac
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
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|name = Frederick Isaac
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| office1 = Member of the Queensland Legislative Council
| term_start1 = 25 August 1864
| term_end1 = 12 July 1865
|birth_date = 1825
|birth_place = Worcester, England
|death_date = {{death year and age|1865|1825}}
|death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
|restingplace =
|birthname = Frederick Neville Isaac
|nationality = English Australian
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|spouse = Caroline Sophia Sparkes (m.1854)
| known_for =
| occupation = Pastoralist, explorer, magistrate
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Frederick Neville Isaac (1825 – 12 July 1865) was a Queensland pioneer pastoralist and a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council.{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015|url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=286132946|accessdate=5 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402164008/http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=286132946|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}
Queensland pioneer
Frederick Isaac arrived in Queensland in 1840. Together with his brother, he accompanied the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt on his first expedition, on which Isaac proved himself an excellent bushman.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1275400 |title=The Late Frederick Neville Isaac|newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=18 July 1865 |accessdate=5 April 2015 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
After that expedition, Frederick Isaac then returned to Gowrie, and went from there with stock to take up land. In 1847, Isaac and his men settled at a place called Dullacca (later the property of William Miles, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly), but he was very soon driven from that land by the aborigines. He managed to save some of his stock but was forced to leave behind all his stores and his dray.
In 1852 he entered a partnership with his brother as owners of Gowrie Station.
In 1854, he returned to England, where he married Caroline Sparkes, of St Johns, Bridgenorth, in Shropshire.
On returning to Queensland, he undertook roles such as territorial magistrate and returning officer for elections.
Politics
Later life
Frederick Isaac died on 12 July 1865. He was buried in the Paddington Cemetery.{{cite web|title=Paddington Cemetery Records of the Pioneers of Brisbane|url=http://www.brisbanehistory.com/paddington_cemetery_2.html|website=Brisbane History|accessdate=4 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150304115343/http://www.brisbanehistory.com/paddington_cemetery_2.html|archive-date=4 March 2015|url-status=usurped|df=dmy-all}} His widow remarried in 1866, to John Watts MLA, Queensland Secretary for Public Works, and returned with him to England in 1867.{{cite news |author1=Sylvanus Urban |authorlink1=Sylvanus Urban |title=Marriages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HUtDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA823 |accessdate=10 April 2019 |work=The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review |publisher=Bradbury Evans & Co |date=1866 |location=London |page=823}}
Legacy
Leichhardt named the Isaac River after him.{{cite QPN|16856|Isaac River|accessdate=5 April 2015}} In turn, the river gives its name to the local government area of Isaac Region.{{cite web|title=Isaac Regional Council|url=http://www.queenslandplaces.com.au/isaac-regional-council|work=Queensland Places|publisher=Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland|accessdate=5 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411020127/http://www.queenslandplaces.com.au/isaac-regional-council|archive-date=11 April 2015|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}
Letters from Leichhardt to Isaac are held in the State Library of New South Wales.{{Citation | author1=Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813–1848 | title=Item 12: Autograph letter signed from Ludwig Leichhardt to Frederick Isaac, 3 June 1844 | date=1844 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/192593185 | accessdate=5 April 2015 }}{{Citation | author1=Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813–1848 | title=Item 14: Autograph letter signed from Ludwig Leichhardt to Frederick Isaac, 10 October 1847 | date=1847 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/192593186 | accessdate=5 April 2015 }}
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Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Council