Background
Alexander Raff was born in Forres, Elginshire, Scotland in July 1820, as the third son of James and Margaret Raff.
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After first settling in Victoria pursuing pastoral interests, Alexander arrived in Brisbane, aboard the Souvenir schooner on April 9, 1851. Alexander purchased two blocks of land on what was to become Gregory Terrace in Spring Hill on May 14, 1860 for £312.4.3. A third adjacent block was subsequently bought by Raff in 1864 from the original 1860 purchaser, John Frederick McDougall.
In January 1861, Alexander Raff was seriously injured when he was thrown from his horse.
Raff married Elizabeth Millar Patterson, the elder daughter of a prominent Scottish medical family, in Sydney on June 5, 1862. The newly weds arrived in Brisbane aboard the Balclutha on June 13, 1862.
Alexander and Elizabeth Raff had seven children, six of whom survived to adulthood. In 1865 Alexander was appointed to the position of Official Assignee of Insolvent Estates and in 1868 he was promoted to the position of Curator of Intestate Estates.
The Official Assignee was responsible for collecting the assets of an insolvent debtor and distributing them among the creditors.
The Curator of Intestate Estates administered the estate of deceased persons, thought to have died intestate. Alexander continued his pastoral interests in Queensland, on his property, Logie Plains on the Darling Downs. In August 1884 Alexander Raff was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council.
Raff was the first president of the Young Men"s Christian Association in Queensland.
Other organisations of which he was a member include the Queensland Steam Navigation Company. The Board of National Education pending the passing of the Education Acting in 1860.
And, later, the men"s steering committee for the Brisbane Children"s Hospital established in 1878. Alexander was a director of the Scottish Mutual Land and Mortgage Company.
The Agricultural Company.
The Brisbane Gas Company and National Mutual Life Association. Alexander Raff retired from the Legislative Council on 10 June 1910 (he was approaching his 90th birthday). Alexander Raff died on 26 January 1914.
He was buried in the Toowong Cemetery on 27 January 1914.
This Wikipedia article was originally based on The Queensland Heritage Register published by the State of Queensland under Central Committee-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014).
Membership
He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Alexander Raff was an active member of various organisations and societies, including the Brisbane School of Arts, where he was elected Treasurer in January 1854. The Pilot"s Board; the Queensland Horticultural and Agricultural Society and the Queensland Philosophical Society, in both of which he acted as Treasurer during the 1860s.
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