Haughton Forrest

[3] In 1852, he obtained a commission in the Honourable Artillery Company of London and later in the 31st Royal Monmouth Light Infantry.

[1] After advancing to the rank of captain, he resigned his commission to take a civil service position with the British Post Office.

In 1875, perhaps trying to emulate his father's career as a planter, he took up a land grant in Kittoland, an English settlement in the state of Paraná, Brazil, but found the environment unamenable.

[3] He soon abandoned that enterprise too, moving to Sorell, where he held a number of municipal positions including Bailiff of Crown Lands, Inspector of Nuisances and Superintendent of Police.

[1] In 1899, his views of Mount Wellington and Hobart, some based on photographs by John Watt Beattie, were chosen for Australia's first set of pictorial stamps.