Francis Corbet Singleton (17 December 1812 – 10 May 1887) was a politician and public servant in colonial Western Australia and South Australia, a member of the

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Biography

Singleton was the third son of Francis Corbet, of Aclare,

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, Ireland, who assumed the additional name of Singleton in compliance with the will of his great grand-uncle, the Right Hon. Henry Singleton, sometime Master of the Rolls and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland. Singleton entered the

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in 1825, was present at the capture of the Morea Castle in

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and left the navy in 1836. He married Louisa, daughter of Rev. Thomas Gore, of Mulranken,

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. Singleton was clerk of the Legislative Council and Government Resident of the Murray district, Western Australia, from 1840 to 1847; a member of the Legislative Council of that colony nominated by the Crown, from 1844 to 1847; Auditor-General of South Australia from 8 May 1847, to January 1851; clerk of the Executive Council of South Australia from December 1850 to December 1851; clerk of the wholly nominated

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from December 1850 to August 1851; clerk of the partly elected Council from August 1851 to February 1857; and clerk of the wholly elected Legislative Council, under the Constitution Act, from February 1857 till his death on 10 May 1887. The

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suburb of

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was named after him.

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External links

Photograph of Singleton
at State Library of South Australia
Obituary
at Obituaries Australia {{DEFAULTSORT:Singleton, Francis Corbet 1812 births 1887 deaths Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council Politicians from County Meath Irish emigrants to Australia 19th-century Australian politicians