Career
Born at Wivenhoe station, Moreton Bay, Uhr served as a police officer with the Queensland Police between 1866 and 1869, and then spent his time cattle driving. He pioneered the Gulf-McArthur-Katherine route, and was the first to strike gold at Pine Creek in 1872. Mixing cattle farming with gold prospecting, Uhr travelled Queensland and the Northern Territory before settling on the Goyder River managing a gold station there.
He gained a reputation as "a fearless and competent bushman who had little sympathy for natives" after brushes with hostile Australian Aboriginals.
In 1883 he led reprisals against an Aboriginal population for the murder of a stockman. However he was widowed after the couple had two children, and he remarried Myra Essie Thompson.
He died in Coolgardie and was given a lavish public funeral.