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Edward Palmer
1842–1899
A pioneer grazier, public servant, and Queensland politician, he turned his years on the frontier into vivid writing about settlement in the north. His best-known book, published after his death, draws on firsthand experience of life in North Queensland in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Early Days in North Queensland
by Edward Palmer
About the author
Born in Wollongong, New South Wales, on 8 March 1842, he went to Queensland as a teenager and spent much of his working life in the pastoral industry. Over time he also served in public roles, including as a stock inspector, and he sat in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the 1880s and 1890s.
He is remembered by many readers for Early Days in North Queensland, a memoir-like historical work issued in 1903 after his death. The book reflects his experience as one of the early pastoral settlers in the region and helped preserve stories of frontier life, exploration, and station country in colonial Queensland.
He died in Rockhampton on 3 May 1899. A usable verified portrait image in JPEG, PNG, or WEBP format was not confirmed from the sources I checked, so no profile image is included here.