page_title: Claudius Buchanan Whish
section_title: Sugar cane plantation owner
hierarchical_section_title: Claudius Buchanan Whish / Sugar cane plantation owner
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Anne Whish.
context_page_description: Claudius Buchanan Whish was a prominent sugar-planter, civil servant and politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council.
context_section_description: Whish migrated to Queensland on the Young Australia and began the Oaklands sugar plantation in Caboolture on 15 August 1862. His crop did well and he became chairman of the local planters’ association and hired Pacific islanders to work on the crop. Although this move lost him the favour of the people, after 1865 it helped to preserve his £5000 investment.
caption: Portrait of his wife Anne Whish
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