Charlton was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, the son of Thomas Charlton and his wife Rebecca, née Thompson and was baptised on 21 June 1826.[2] Charlton married Hannah Elizabeth Breeze on 30 September 1850 at St Mary-at-Lambeth, Surrey, and the couple emigrated to Australia.[2]
Career in Australiaedit
Charlton was elected member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Ripon, Hampden, Grenville and Polwarth in December 1853, a position he held until he resigned in September 1854.[3] The resignation was probably linked to his insolvency proceedings in November 1854 as Members of Parliament could not be bankrupt.[4]
Charlton became a surveyor, he laid out and named the town of Bundaberg in Queensland in 1870.[2] He was also editor of The Queensland Times using the name John Charlton Thompson.[2]
^ abcde"John Thompson Charlton b.1826,Hull,Yorkshire". Retrieved 22 July 2014.
^ ab. Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
^"Domestic intelligence". The Argus. 28 October 1854. p. 5. Retrieved 29 December 2017 – via Trove.
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