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Foster Fyans was a resident of Geelong. He was a Captain in the British army and commandant of the penal establishment at Norfolk Island, later at Botany Bay. He was one of the first arrivals at Geelong, and was appointed first police magistrate in 1837. In 1840 Fyans was made Crown Lands Commissioner at Geelong, and became Sheriff in 1853.
