Stephen Simpson (doctor)
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The Hon Dr Stephen Simpson JP |
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| Member of the Queensland Legislative Council | |
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In office 23 May 1860 – 3 February 1865 |
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Stephen Simpson 29 July 1793 Wolston, Warwickshire, England |
| Died | 1 March 1869 (aged 75) Marylebone, London, England |
| Nationality | English Australian |
| Spouse(s) | Sophia Anne Simpson (m.1838 d.1840) |
| Occupation | Surgeon, Homoeopathic practitioner, Police magistrate |
Stephen Simpson (1793–1869) was a doctor and civil servant in Queensland, Australia. He was a founding Member of the Queensland Legislative Council.
Stephen Simpson was born on 29 July 1793 in Wolston, Warwickshire, England, the son of Thomas Simpson and his wife Anne (née Bank).
From 1813 to 1817 he was a soldier with the 4th Light Dragoons. After that he studied medicine in Edinburgh. He became interested in homeopathy.
Simpson immigrated to Queensland, arriving first in Sydney on the Wilmot and then arriving in Moreton Bay in July 1840.
Stephen Simpson was appointed Commissioner for Crown Lands for the Moreton Bay District in 1842 when the area was first opened up for free settlement following the closure of the penal colony. He was a cultured man, a doctor of medicine, a Justice of the Peace, a Police Magistrate and a founding Member of the Queensland Legislative Council following Separation from New South Wales.
In 1843 he undertook an exploration of the Wide Bay district.
His first home in the colony was at Woogaroo (now Goodna), situated between Brisbane and Ipswich on what was to become the site of the Wolston Park Hospital. In 1851, when the opportunity to buy land in the area arose, he purchased 640 acres (2.6 km2) to the east of his first house on land overlooking the Brisbane River. There he constructed a two-room brick cottage over a sandstone basement. The house was shingled and had a detached kitchen. This cottage now forms the core of the heritage-listed Wolston House.
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