Statue of Lord Forrest

Pride of Place

Tall and elegant statue in Kings Park, Forest peers down over Perth from atop its most beautiful garden. He was a surveyor/explorer but also the first Premier of Western Australia. There are good info...

First Australian to become a Lord

Lord Forrest, Baron of Bunbury, was the first Australian raised to the Peerage. Forrest (1847-1918) died at sea on the way to England be formally inducted into the Peerage. He was known as an intrepid...

Pioneering explorer and statesman

Lord John Forrest, first Baron of Bunbury (1849-1918), was the first native-born Australian to be elevated to the Peerage. Forrest was on of the last great pioneering explorers of inland Australia. H...

Raised to the hereditary aristocracy,

Lord John Forrest, first Baron of Bunbury, is one of the few Australians raised to the hereditary aristocracy. He was on his way to England, where he would have been elevated to the peerage, when he...

First Baron of Bunbury

John Forrest was a noted explorer of inland Australia, with his brother Alexander. He became Premier of Western Australia and a member of the first ministry of the Commonwealth of Australia following...