Eliza Forlonge (1784–1859), a Scot, daughter of teacher Alexander Jack, was an Australian pioneer who played a large part in introducing Merino sheep to the south-east part of the country.
She married John Forlong, a Glasgow wine merchant, in 1804. Four of their six children died young.
In the late 1820s she made three trips (of several months each) to Saxony, selecting the best fine-wool Merino sheep she could find. Then from 1829 she and sons William (b. 1813) and Andrew (b. 1814) and her husband's sister, Mrs Janet Templeton (widowed in 1829), shipped them to Tasmania, settling at “Winton”, at Kirklands, near Campbell Town. A sundial has been erected there in her memory. Her husband, later described as "the linch-pin of the enterprise", died on a trip to England in 1834.
William and Andrew moved to the mainland (then known as the Port Philip District of New South Wales but later part of the colony of Victoria) in the late 1830s. William married Eliza's niece Marion Templeton. They had eleven children, at least six of whom produced children in their turn. In about 1851 William bought the lease of the Templeton property at Seven Creeks station near Euroa. Eliza spent the rest of her days there.
William became a Member of Parliament for the New South Wales Electoral district of Orange 1864-1867.
Eliza's part in introducing Victoria's first fine-wool Saxon Merinos is commemorated, with a gravestone erected in 1933 on Forlonge Memorial Road. It is a slab of granite in the shape of a wool pack. The Farmers' Arms Hotel Museum at Euroa includes rooms in an old building at Seven Creeks called "Eliza Forlonge Cottage".
Eliza was one of the chief characters in a semi-historical novel "Saxon Sheep" by Nancy Adams, a great-grand-daughter of Janet Templeton.