Richard Joseph Smith

By 1847 he had travelled to Brisbane and established a boiling down works at Kangaroo Point.

In 1849 he established the Town Marie Boiling Down Works on the Bremer River at Karalee, near Ipswich.

[1] Smith became an elected member of the New South Wales Legislative Council on 1 March 1853, representing the Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, and Maranoa.

[3][4] After his resignation he became a crown law agent in Ipswich, before his appointment as a land commissioner in the Moreton area.

[1] In 1861, Smith married Maria Susanna Stutchbury in Brisbane and together they had one daughter.