17 Facts About Justin Foxton

Justin Fox Greenlaw Foxton was an Australian barrister and politician.

Justin Foxton served in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1883 to 1904 and held ministerial office in several liberal governments.

Justin Foxton later represented the seat of Brisbane in federal parliament and was a minister without portfolio under Alfred Deakin.

Justin Foxton was a long-serving member of Queensland's colonial militia and gained the rank of colonel.

Justin Foxton was the son of Isabel Elizabeth and John Greenlaw Foxton.

Justin Foxton's father was a sea captain who arrived in the Port Phillip District in 1841.

Justin Foxton moved to Queensland in 1864 and briefly worked as a jackeroo, then read law with John Malbon Thompson in Ipswich.

Justin Foxton was called to the Queensland Bar in 1871 and the following year established a practice at the Stanthorpe tinfields.

Justin Foxton held the Legislative Assembly seat of Carnarvon from 1883 until 1904.

Justin Foxton joined the old volunteer forces when a very young man and rose to be brigadier in command of the Queensland field force.

Justin Foxton represented Australia at the Imperial conference on naval and military defence of empire in 1909, and was for some time aide-de-camp to the Governor General of Australia.

Justin Foxton brought in a Factories and Shops Act in 1896 which showed a distinct advance in humanitarian legislation, and its provisions were further extended in his factories and shops act of 1900.

Justin Foxton implemented the 1901 Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act.

Justin Foxton married Emily Panton in 1874, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

Justin Foxton was keenly interested in cricket, serving as president of the Queensland Cricket Association, chairman of trustees of the Brisbane Cricket Ground, and a member of the Australian Board of Control.

Justin Foxton died at Brisbane of cerebro-vascular disease on 23 June 1916.

Justin Foxton's funeral proceeded from his former residence, Bulimba House to the Toowong Cemetery in Brisbane.