Josiah Boothby (original) (raw)
Josiah Boothby CMG (1837–1916) was a public administrator in the colony of South Australia. Boothby was the fifth son of the Benjamin Boothby (who later became a judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia), and was born at Nottingham on 8 April 1837. He went to the colony with his father in 1853, and in that year became Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office, Clerk in the Audit Office in 1854, Chief Clerk in the Audit Office in 1856, Chief Clerk in the Chief Secretary's Office in 1859, also Government statist and Superintendent of Census in 1860, Assistant Secretary and Government Statist in 1866, and Under Secretary and Government Statist in 1868. He was elected Corresponding Member of the Statistical Society, London, in 1869; was appointed Trustee of the Savings Bank, South Australi
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | Josiah Boothby CMG (1837–1916) was a public administrator in the colony of South Australia. Boothby was the fifth son of the Benjamin Boothby (who later became a judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia), and was born at Nottingham on 8 April 1837. He went to the colony with his father in 1853, and in that year became Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office, Clerk in the Audit Office in 1854, Chief Clerk in the Audit Office in 1856, Chief Clerk in the Chief Secretary's Office in 1859, also Government statist and Superintendent of Census in 1860, Assistant Secretary and Government Statist in 1866, and Under Secretary and Government Statist in 1868. He was elected Corresponding Member of the Statistical Society, London, in 1869; was appointed Trustee of the Savings Bank, South Australia, in 1869; a Commissioner for International Exhibitions in 1872; joint editor of a work "South Australia: its History, Resources, and Productions," published by authority of Government in 1876, and Executive Commissioner representing South Australia at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1878, in connection with which he was created C.M.G., and received the Cross of the Legion of Honour. Owing to a dispute in connection with the expenses of the Paris Exhibition he retired from the public service of South Australia in 1880. (en) |
| dbo:thumbnail | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Josiah_Boothby_2.jpeg?width=300 |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 35934815 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 2049 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 898667639 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Benjamin_Boothby dbr:Election dbr:Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George dbr:Legion_of_Honour dbr:London dbc:1837_births dbc:1916_deaths dbc:English_emigrants_to_Australia dbc:People_from_Nottingham dbc:Public_servants_of_South_Australia dbr:Nottingham dbr:Paris dbr:Census dbr:Colonial_Secretary_of_South_Australia dbr:File:Josiah_Boothby_2.jpeg dbr:Audit dbc:19th-century_Australian_public_servants dbc:Australian_statisticians dbr:Supreme_Court_of_South_Australia dbr:South_Australia dbr:Statism dbr:Public_administrator dbr:Savings_Bank dbr:Statistical_Society |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Authority_control dbt:Reflist dbt:Use_Australian_English dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:Australia-gov-bio-stub |
| dct:subject | dbc:1837_births dbc:1916_deaths dbc:English_emigrants_to_Australia dbc:People_from_Nottingham dbc:Public_servants_of_South_Australia dbc:19th-century_Australian_public_servants dbc:Australian_statisticians |
| gold:hypernym | dbr:Administrator |
| schema:sameAs | http://viaf.org/viaf/94395833 |
| rdf:type | owl:Thing dbo:Person yago:WikicatAustralianPeopleOfEnglishDescent yago:WikicatAustralianStatisticians yago:WikicatPeopleFromSouthAustralia yago:CausalAgent100007347 yago:Emigrant110051975 yago:LivingThing100004258 yago:Mathematician110301261 yago:Migrant110314952 yago:Object100002684 yago:Organism100004475 yago:Person100007846 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo yago:Scientist110560637 yago:Statistician110653238 yago:Traveler109629752 yago:Whole100003553 yago:WikicatEnglishEmigrantsToAustralia |
| rdfs:comment | Josiah Boothby CMG (1837–1916) was a public administrator in the colony of South Australia. Boothby was the fifth son of the Benjamin Boothby (who later became a judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia), and was born at Nottingham on 8 April 1837. He went to the colony with his father in 1853, and in that year became Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office, Clerk in the Audit Office in 1854, Chief Clerk in the Audit Office in 1856, Chief Clerk in the Chief Secretary's Office in 1859, also Government statist and Superintendent of Census in 1860, Assistant Secretary and Government Statist in 1866, and Under Secretary and Government Statist in 1868. He was elected Corresponding Member of the Statistical Society, London, in 1869; was appointed Trustee of the Savings Bank, South Australi (en) |
| rdfs:label | Josiah Boothby (en) |
| owl:sameAs | freebase:Josiah Boothby yago-res:Josiah Boothby http://viaf.org/viaf/94395833 http://d-nb.info/gnd/104790926X wikidata:Josiah Boothby https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4oyxC |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Josiah_Boothby?oldid=898667639&ns=0 |
| foaf:depiction | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Josiah_Boothby_2.jpeg |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Josiah_Boothby |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:Benjamin_Boothby dbr:Josiah_(given_name) dbr:List_of_South_Australian_royal_commissions dbr:Boothby_(surname) dbr:T._S._Reed |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Josiah_Boothby |
