not seem to me reasonable to tell a man who is happy and content, to marry a woman who may turn out a great disappointment." Legacy Herston became the name of a modern-day Brisbane suburb surrounding the site of the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. The Herbert River is located in Far North Queensland, Australia. The southernmost of Queensland's wet tropics river systems, it was named in 1864 by the explorer George Elphinstone Dalrymple after Robert Herbert. The Queensland federal electorate of Herbert, one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election, was named after him. Governor George Bowen, Queensland's first Governor, appointed Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert as first Colonial Secretary of Queensland before leaving England in 1859. This document was ranked #5 in the ‘Top 150: Documenting Queensland’ exhibition when it toured to venues around Queensland from February 2009 to April 2010. The exhibition was part of Queensland State Archives’ events and exhibition program which contributed to the state’s Q150 celebrations, marking the 150th anniversary of the separation of Queensland from New South Wales. See also Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1860–1863; 1863–1867 References External links 1831 births 1905 deaths Robert Herbert Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Premiers of Queensland Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for the Colonies Civil servants in the Board of Trade Civil servants in the Colonial Office Private secretaries in the British Civil Service High Sheriffs of the County of London 19th-century Australian politicians 19th-century Australian public servants People educated at Eton College