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    Foster Fyans (September 1790 – 23 May 1870) was an Irish military officer, penal colony administrator and public servant. He was acting commandant of the...
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  • Fyans is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Foster Fyans (1790–1870), British Army soldier, penal colony administrator, and public servant...
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    the western edge of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, named after Captain Foster Fyans who came to Geelong as a Police magistrate in October, 1837. It is located...
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  • American investment manager Foster Furcolo (1911–1995), American politician Foster Fyans (1790–1870), Irish military officer Foster Griffin (born 1995), American...
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  • Australia(vol. 6), p. 397. Fyans, Foster (1986), Memoirs recorded at Geelong, Victoria, Australia by Captain Foster Fyans (1790-1870), Geelong Advertiser...
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    Squire Western Aces High (1976) as Silkin Eliza Fraser (1976) as Captain Foster Fyans The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977) as Sir Hector Babel Yemen (1977...
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  • Police for some time. According to the local head of that force, Captain Foster Fyans, Bonjon was with him and his troopers for 4 years, tracking down and...
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    Newtown, Geelong. The "Breakwater" in East Geelong was constructed by Foster Fyans to supply drinking water. Water from the river feeds agriculture and...
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    Fyansford. Fyans arranged the first muster of the Indigenous population and 275 Aboriginal people were found to be living in the area. Fyans distributed...
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    National Library of Australia. Fyans, Foster; Brown, P.L. (1986). Memoirs recorded at Geelong, Victoria by Captain Foster Fyans. Geelong: Geelong Advertiser...
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    Henry Dana, and from the Border Police of New South Wales, under Captain Foster Fyans. The police magistrate from Portland, James Blair, and the new position...
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    1829 Joseph Wakefield 29 June 1829 to 1834 James Morisset 1834 to 1834 Foster Fyans 1834 to 4 November 1839 Joseph Anderson 1839 to 1839 Thomas Bunbury 1840...
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    1824-1826 Patrick Logan, 1826-1830 James Oliphant Clunie, 1830-1835 Foster Fyans, 1835-1837 Sydney John Cotton, 1837-1839 George Gravatt, 1839 Owen Gorman...
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    1834: Lieutenant-Colonel James Thomas Morisset (1782–1852) 1834: Captain Foster Fyans (1790–1870) (Acting) 1834 – April 1839: Major Joseph Anderson (1790–1877)...
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  • Retrieved 24 April 2019. Fyans, Foster; Brown, P. L. (1986), Memoirs recorded at Geelong, Victoria, Australia by Captain Foster Fyans (1790–1870), Geelong...
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  • # Mayor Term 1 Foster Fyans 1849–1850 2 Alexander Thomson 1850–1851 3 James Austin 1851–1852 4 James Cowie 1852–1853 5 Dr William Baylie 1853–1855 6 Alexander...
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    across the Barwon River by Geelong's first Police magistrate, Captain Foster Fyans, in 1837. The ford stopped the inflow of salt water to the fresh water...
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  • militia of Barrabool men was organised by the district official Captain Foster Fyans. This force exterminated almost completely the remaining Gadubanud population...
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    in Geelong owned by Foster Fyans, which was in turn named for Balliang (or Ballyang), who was an Aboriginal leader employed by Fyans. Balliang Post Office...
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    Her father, Albert Foster Dawson, was a U.S. Representative from Iowa. Dawson’s political activity may have been an influence on Fyan’s lifelong participation...
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  • Fraser stops off at the penal colony of Moreton Bay which is run by Captain Fyans, who tries to seduce convict Bracefell. Bracefell escapes and hides in Eliza's...
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    following year, 1847, when a detachment of Native Police Corps, led by Foster Fyans, slaughtered another group, while kidnapping two surviving children,...
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    because of a violent nervous disorder was given a year's leave in Sydney, Foster Fyans being appointed to act in his place. When this leave expired Morisset...
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    Morisset, allowed Fyans to torture and subject the surviving ringleaders to harsh punishment which earned him the name of "Flogger Fyans". Fourteen convicts...
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  • settlers' animals were killed in the area sparked the 187 decision to send Foster Fyans as police sergeant to Geelong in 1837, followed by a thirteen-man military...
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    fraternisations intensely annoyed the penal colony's Commandant, Captain Foster Fyans. Women caught were put in solitary confinement in tiny cells, put in...
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    once owned by Captain Foster Fyans, who purchased it in 1845 at the first government land sale. It was on that land that Foster built his permanent home...
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  • Tasmania in 1812, and purchased the Colac estate from the late Captain Foster Fyans. Robertson, sen., was for many years engaged in pastoral pursuits at...
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    member of the Native Police for some time. According to police magistrate Foster Fyans, Bonjon was with the Native Police for seven months, tracking runaway...
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  • Belligerents Convict insurgents British Army Commanders and leaders Captain Foster Fyans Strength over 100 Casualties and losses 6 dead 13 convicts executed 1...
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