| 词条 | Alexander Raff |
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|honorific-prefix = The Hon |name = Alexander Raff |honorific-suffix = |image = Alexander Raff.tiff |caption = | office1 = Member of the Queensland Legislative Council | term_start1 = 14 August 1884 | term_end1 = 10 June 1910 |birth_date = {{Birth date|1820|7|20|df=y}} |birth_place = Forres, Elginshire, Scotland |death_date = {{death date and age|1914|1|26|1820|7|20|df=y}} |death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |restingplace = Toowong Cemetery |birthname = Alexander Raff |nationality = Scottish Australian |party = |otherparty = |spouse = Elizabeth Millar Patterson (m.1862 d.1909) | occupation = Curator, Company director | relations = George Raff (brother) | alma_mater = | religion = Presbyterian }}Alexander Raff (1820–1914) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council.[1] Early lifeRaff was born in Forres, Elginshire, Scotland, in July 1820, as the third son of James and Margaret Raff. Raff arrived in New South Wales in 1845, following his eldest brother, George Raff, who had arrived in 1841. After first settling in Victoria pursuing pastoral interests, Raff arrived in Brisbane, aboard the Souvenir schooner on 9 April 1851.[1] Queensland yearsRaff purchased two blocks of land on what was to become Gregory Terrace in Spring Hill on 14 May 1860 for £312.4.3. A third adjacent block was subsequently bought by Raff in 1864 from the original 1860 purchaser, John Frederick McDougall.[1] In January 1861, Raff was seriously injured when he was thrown from his horse.[2] Raff married Elizabeth Millar Patterson, the elder daughter of a prominent Scottish medical family, in Sydney on 5 June 1862. The newly-weds arrived in Brisbane aboard the Balclutha on 13 June 1862. Raff and his wife Elizabeth had seven children, six of whom survived to adulthood. At some point prior to the birth of his first child, Jessie Watson, on 18 April 1863, the now heritage-listed house Grangehill was built on the Gregory Terrace site and occupied by Raff's family.[1] In 1865 Raff was appointed to the position of Official Assignee of Insolvent Estates, and in 1868 he was promoted to the position of Curator of Intestate Estates. The Official Assignee was responsible for collecting the assets of an insolvent debtor and distributing them among the creditors; the Curator of Intestate Estates administered the estate of deceased persons, thought to have died intestate.[1] Raff continued his pastoral interests in Queensland, on his property, Logie Plains on the Darling Downs. For many years from the 1880s, Raff was a partner of Smellie and Co, looking after the financial interests of the company.[1] In August 1884 Raff was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council.[1] Raff was an active member of various organisations and societies, including the Brisbane School of Arts, where he was elected treasurer in January 1854; the Pilot's Board; the Queensland Horticultural and Agricultural Society and the Queensland Philosophical Society, in both of which he acted as treasurer during the 1860s. Raff was the first president of the Young Men's Christian Association in Queensland. Other organisations of which he was a member include the Queensland Steam Navigation Company; the Board of National Education pending the passing of the Education Act in 1860; and, later, the men's steering committee for the Brisbane Children's Hospital established in 1878. Raff was a director of the Scottish Mutual Land and Mortgage Company; the Agricultural Company; the Brisbane Gas Company and National Mutual Life Association. Raff was an elder in the Presbyterian Church.[1] Later lifeRaff retired from the legislative council on 10 June 1910 (he was approaching his 90th birthday).[3] Raff died on 26 January 1914.[1][4] He was buried in the Toowong Cemetery[5] on 27 January 1914.[6] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{cite QHR|16428|Grangehill|601668|accessdate=1 August 2014}} 2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19664917 |title=FIFTY YEARS AGO. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=7 January 1911 |accessdate=29 January 2015 |page=12 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19644693 |title=The Brisbane Courier. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=13 July 1910 |accessdate=29 January 2015 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25503551 |title=DEATH OF TWO OLD COLONISTS. |newspaper=The Queenslander |location=Brisbane |date=31 January 1914 |accessdate=29 January 2015 |page=39 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^[https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=142538 Raff Alexander] — Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 28 March 2015. 6. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19961367 |title=Death of Hon. Alexander Raff. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=27 January 1914 |accessdate=29 January 2015 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Attribution{{QHR-CC-2014-text}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Raff, Alexander}} 6 : Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register|Members of the Queensland Legislative Council|1820 births|1914 deaths|Burials at Toowong Cemetery|Australian people of Scottish descent |
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