Francis Singleton

Francis Corbet Singleton (17 December 1812 – 10 May 1887) was a politician and public servant in colonial Western Australia and South Australia, a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council.^[1]

Biography[edit]

Singleton was the third son of Francis Corbet, of Aclare, County Meath, Ireland, who assumed the additional name of Singleton in compliance with the will of his great grand-uncle, the Right Hon. Henry Singleton, sometime Master of the Rolls and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland.^[1] Singleton entered the Royal Navy in 1825, was present at the capture of the Morea Castle in Greece and left the navy in 1836.^[2] He married Louisa, daughter of Rev. Thomas Gore, of Mulranken, County Wexford.^[1]

Singleton was clerk of the Legislative Council and Government Resident of the Murray district, Western Australia, from 1840 to 1847; a member of the Legislative Council of that colony nominated by the Crown, from 1844 to 1847; Auditor-General of South Australia from 8 May 1847, to January 1851; clerk of the Executive Council of South Australia from December 1850 to December 1851; clerk of the wholly nominated South Australian Legislative Council from December 1850 to August 1851; clerk of the partly elected Council from August 1851 to February 1857; and clerk of the wholly elected Legislative Council, under the Constitution Act, from February 1857 till his death on 10 May 1887.^[1]

The City of Rockingham suburb of Singleton was named after him.^[3]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mennell, Philip (1892). "Singleton, Francis Corbet" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
^ "Death of Mr. F. C. Singleton". The South Australian Advertiser. Adelaide, S.A.: National Library of Australia. 11 May 1887. p. 7. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
^ "History of metropolitan suburb names – S". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 16 March 2022. Retrieved 3 December 2021.

External links[edit]

Photograph of Singleton at State Library of South Australia
Obituary at Obituaries Australia

[Mennell-1] Mennell, Philip (1892). "Singleton, Francis Corbet" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.

[2] "Death of Mr. F. C. Singleton". The South Australian Advertiser. Adelaide, S.A.: National Library of Australia. 11 May 1887. p. 7. Retrieved 26 August 2014.

[3] "History of metropolitan suburb names – S". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 16 March 2022. Retrieved 3 December 2021.

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