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Coxen, Charles, 1809-1876
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Dates of existence
1809-1876
History
Charles Coxen was an Australian naturalist and politician, who lived at one time on Jondaryan Station with his nephew Henry, then in Bulimba, Brisbane. Elected to the first parliament of Queensland in 1863, he also helped found the Queensland Museum and the Queensland Philosophical Society. His sister Elizabeth married the renouned ornithologist and artist John Gould.