Honorific-Prefix: | The Hon |
Albert Callan | |
Constituency Am: | Fitzroy |
Assembly: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start: | 3 August 1889 |
Term End: | 11 March 1902 |
Predecessor: | Robert Lyons |
Successor: | Henri Cowap |
Office1: | Queensland Legislative Council |
Term Start1: | 5 July 1902 |
Term End1: | 9 May 1912 |
Birth Date: | December 1839 |
Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Death Date: | 9 May 1912 (aged 72) |
Death Place: | New Farm, Queensland, Australia |
Restingplace: | Toowong Cemetery |
Birthname: | Albert James Callan |
Nationality: | Irish Australian |
Spouse: | Ellen Milford (m.1870 d.1910) |
Party: | Ministerial |
Occupation: | Company director |
Albert James Callan (December 1839 – 9 May 1912) was a Company director, and a member of both the Queensland Legislative Council and Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Callan was born in Dublin, Ireland to John Bartholomew Callan and his wife Isabella (née Duthie) and educated at Jesuit's College, Dublin.[1]
Following the resignation of Robert Lyons, he entered state politics in 1889,[1] winning a by-election for the seat of Fitzroy.[2] Callan held the seat until the 1902 state election[1] which he did not contest.[3]
Callan was then appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council in July 1902, remaining a member till his death ten years later.[1]
Callan married Ellen Milford in 1870, and together had four children. He was a director of Walter Reid & Co., Mt Morgan Gold Mining Co., and the National Bank.[1]
He died in May 1912[1] and was buried in Toowong Cemetery.[4]