Board of Inquiry Above – left to right: the Board who heard Frank Bowerman’s charges. Left: Auditor-General Frederick Orme Darvall, Surveyor-General Sir Augustus Charles Gregory, Collector of Customs William Thornton. The official Board of Inquiry into three charges of misconduct against Frank Sydney Bowerman was convened with a speed modern public servants would find astonishing.Continue reading “Bowerman’s Board, Trial, and the Aftermath.”
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Dalby, Leyburn and Infamy – Frank Bowerman’s Turbulent 1868.
Until October 1868, as far as the public knew, Frank S Bowerman was a minor civil servant on the Darling Downs. He was appointed as Police Magistrate at Leyburn in March. The first hint that all was not as it should be came with a story in the Dalby Herald on 10 October, in whichContinue reading “Dalby, Leyburn and Infamy – Frank Bowerman’s Turbulent 1868.”
The Bowermans in Queensland.
The first member of the Bowerman family to venture into what is now Queensland was Henry Boucher Bowerman in 1835. In the 1850s, his sons Henry, and later Frank took up residence on the Darling Downs, both keen to improve their prospects. Henry Bowerman and Coorangah Station. Henry Bowerman junior was a respectable, rather modestContinue reading “The Bowermans in Queensland.”
The Bowerman Inheritance.
Assistant Commissary Bowerman and family. The Bowerman family arrived in Sydney in 1825, where Henry Boucher Bowerman had been assigned as Assistant Commissary General. He spent time working at Port Macquarie, then Parramatta, where Frank Sydney Bowerman joined the family on 7 March 1828. Henry Bowerman senior became part of the colonial gentry, with goodContinue reading “The Bowerman Inheritance.”
The Attempted Assassination in Brisbane.
FS Bowerman. Part 1. 24 November 1868 At 9:30 in the morning of 24 November 1868, Arthur Simmonds, a storekeeper in Albert Street, Brisbane had a slightly unusual customer. A tall, thin auburn-haired man, with the dress and manner of a gentleman, who bore a rather distracted air. After looking around the store, the gentlemanContinue reading “The Attempted Assassination in Brisbane.”
Moreton Bay and More 