Joseph Capel Smyth (February 1838 – 14 August 1914) was a member of the

Queensland Legislative Council Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, ...

. Smyth was born in 1830 in

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, Ireland to Jonas Smyth and his wife Mary (née Capel) and educated at Riordan's Classical School,

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. When he was around 31 years of age he travelled to

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and, in conjunction with

Thomas McIlwraith Sir Thomas McIlwraith (17 May 1835 – 17 July 1900) was for many years the dominant figure of colonial politics in Queensland. He was Premier of Queensland from 1879 to 1883, again in 1888, and for a third time in 1893. In common with most po ...

, managed several

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. He later became a

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of the Darling Downs and Western Land Co and the Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Co. Appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council in May 1882, Smyth served for twenty-eight years before resigning in July 1910. Smyth died in 1914 and was buried in

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.Smyth Joseph Capel
— Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 11 March 2015.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smyth, Joseph Members of the Queensland Legislative Council Colony of Queensland people 1838 births 1914 deaths Politicians from County Cork Irish emigrants to colonial Australia