[2] William Forlonge arrived in Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, in November 1829 and decided to stay there.
[1] In October 1854 Forlonge was elected to the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council for Villiers and Heytesbury,[1] becoming a spokesman for squatters.
[1] Forlonge then took the lease of Aynhoe Park, near Brackley, Northamptonshire, when he was selected Conservative candidate for Norwich in the by-election of 28 March 1860, but he was not elected.
Leaving his wife and family at Aynhoe,[citation needed] he returned to New South Wales, becoming a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Orange on 15 December 1864, a seat he held until 12 June 1867, when he was declared insolvent,[3] and resigned his seat.
[1] His eldest daughter, (Christina) Eliza, married Reginald Stuart Poole, archaeologist and Orientalist.