Charles Pakenham Buchanan


Alderman Charles Pakenham Buchanan was Mayor of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia from 1909 for two terms.
Charles Pakenham Buchanan was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on 9 November 1874 to John Alfred Buchanan and Jessie Jane Fraser.
He was educated at St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace in Brisbane. He attended the University of Sydney where he graduated with a B.A. in 1900.
He married Elsie Waverley Newman, daughter of the well known photographer John Hubert Newman in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1899.
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He had four sons and 2 daughters.
He was an alderman on the Brisbane City Council from 1904 - 1921. He was Mayor of Brisbane during two terms, from 1908 and from 1918–1919.
Charles Pakenham Buchanan died in Brisbane on 22 September 1924. He is buried in the Toowong Cemetery.

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