Horace Tozer
23 April 1844 — 20 August 1916
Sir Horace Tozer (12‑11‑8)
Sir Horace Tozer was born on 23 April 1844 at Port Macquarie, New South Wales, son of Horatio Thomas Norris Tozer, chemist, and his wife Charlotte Winifred Amelia (née Croft). He was articled to James Malbon Thompson in Brisbane in 1862 and admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland on 7 December 1867.
He was an alderman in the first Gympie Municipal Council and in 1888 was elected to the Legislative Assembly as the member for Wide Bay and held that seat until 1898. Tozer was totally against universal adult suffrage, not only opposing the women's vote but also manhood suffrage.
He died on 20 August 1916 at his South Brisbane home and was buried in Toowong Cemetery where a private funeral was conducted at his request.
Politician Sir Horace Tozer, Brisbane, 1890 — State Library of Queensland.