WWW Australian Dictionary of Biography online, Accessed 16 Feb 2016 (Sir John Forrest, 1st Baron Forrest of Bunbury (1847-1918), surveyor, explorer and politician, was born on 22 August 1847 at Preston Point, near Bunbury, Western Australia. He died on 3 September 1918, on board a ship anchored off Sierra Leone) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/forrest-sir-john-6211