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| | Foxton, Justin Fox Greenlaw (1849 - 1916) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | FOXTON, JUSTIN FOX GREENLAW (1849-1916), politician, barrister and soldier, was born on 24 September 1849 in Melbourne, son of Captain John Greenlaw Foxton, accountant and former naval officer, and his wife Isabel Elizabeth, née Potts. |
 | | Foxton had come to believe that 'as a matter of strict morals our obligations to the Aboriginals … are of a higher, more exacting nature than those we owe to our own … We are the interlopers, not they'; he also believed in the 'civilizing' influence of religious instruction. |
 | | Foxton was usually known, both formally and satirically, as 'Colonel' Foxton, a title he gained by over thirty years service in the militia; he ended his military career in 1912 as commandant of the Queensland Brigade of the Field Artillery with the C.M.G. (1903) and the Volunteer Officers' Decoration. |
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