Charles Hastings Barton (1 January 1829 - 16 June 1902) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
[2] In 1853 Barton emigrated to Adelaide, where he was a Bachelor of Arts tutor and took up sheep farming and winegrowing.
Found insolvent, he fled his South Australian creditors,[4] and in 1867 arrived in Queensland,[5] where he was the editor and later, the lead-writer of the Maryborough Chronicle.
She died in 1863; he then married Catherine's sister, Elisabeth Basedow, also in Tanunda and this marriage produced another two sons and five daughters.
[6] Barton, representing the Labour Party, won one of the two positions for the two-member seat of Maryborough at the 1902 Queensland state election.