| Occupation* | - explorer (1860-1860) New South Wales, Australia
- plantation manager (1874-1885) Queensland, Australia
- newspaper editor (1875-1881) Queensland, Australia
- Member of Lower House (1878-1882) Queensland, Australia
- local government councillor (1880-1910) Queensland, Australia
- local government head (1883-1884) Queensland, Australia
- sugar cane farmer (1885-1889) Queensland, Australia
- explorer (1889-1889) Queensland, Australia
- naturalist (1889-1889) Queensland, Australia
- geographer (1895-1895) Queensland, Australia
- historian (general) (1895-1895) Queensland, Australia
- Indigenous culture recorder (1898-1924) Queensland, Australia
- protector of Aboriginals (1898-1903) Queensland, Australia
- journalist (1910-1917) New South Wales, Australia
- public servant (1910-1917) Queensland, Australia
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