John William Foster Rogers (1842 – 2 December 1908) was an Australian politician.

Born in Leeds

Leeds

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 to Norfolk Island

Norfolk Island

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 chaplain Thomas George Rogers, he arrived in Australia around 1849 but returned to England in 1852. In 1862 he moved to Australia for good and began teaching in Ballarat

Ballarat, Victoria

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; in 1870 he moved to Melbourne

Melbourne

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 and ran a grammar school in Carlton

Carlton, Victoria

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 from around 1873. He married twice: firstly to Kate Shanahan, with whom he had two sons, and secondly to Letitia Catherine Maloney, with whom he had three children. In the late 1870s he was headmaster of Melbourne Hebrew School, after which he headed a school in St Kilda

St Kilda, Victoria

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 before he was appointed inspector of schools in Sydney

Sydney

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 in 1883. He visited England again in 1887. In 1894 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Victorian Legislative Assembly

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 as the member for South Yarra

Electoral district of South Yarra

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, serving until 1897. Rogers died in Malvern

Malvern, Victoria

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in 1908.