Edward Barrow Forrest
February 1838 — 30 March 1914
Edward Barrow Forrest (9‑37‑1)
In the early hours of 6 September 1864 Edward Forrest noticed a bright light in the home newly constructed for recent Scottish immigrant, Robert Smellie on Bowen Terrace. Mr Forrest raised the alarm, woke the Hingston family whose house was next door to the fire, and rescued two horses from the stable.
Robert Smellie (1823-1898 was later a pioneer of Brisbane's engineering and iron foundry trade.
Edward Forrest (1838-1914) was Queensland director of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company for many years. He was appointed vice-consul for France in 1872 and served in both Houses of Queensland Parliament.
Edward Barrow Forrest, 1907. — Wikimedia Commons.
