Thomas Dibley | |
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Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Woolloongabba | |
In office 28 March 1896 –18 May 1907 | |
Preceded by | William Stephens |
Succeeded by | George Blocksidge |
Personal details | |
Born | Thomas Dibley 1829 Mudgee,New South Wales,Australia |
Died | 31 May 1912 (aged 82-83) Brisbane,Queensland,Australia |
Resting place | Balmoral Cemetery |
Political party | Kidstonites |
Other political affiliations | Labour |
Spouse | Matilda Marie Gates (m.1867 d.1913) |
Occupation | Butcher |
Thomas Dibley (1829 - 31 May 1912) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. [1]
Dibley was born at Mudgee,New South Wales,the son of the Ebenezer Dibley and his wife Mary (née Monckton). He was an apprentice in a Sydney tobacco factory and in 1865 moved to Queensland and leased J.M. Thompson's Cothill Estate in Ipswich. He then became a butcher and timber-getter in Noosa and the Wide-Bay regions and he then moved to Brisbane in 1893 where he worked as a butcher at Woolloongabba. [1]
On 30 September 1867 Dibley married Matilda Marie Gates [1] (died 1913) [2] at Ipswich and together had four sons and four daughters. [1] He died in May 1912 [1] and was buried in the Balmoral Cemetery. [3]
Dibley was an alderman on the South Brisbane Municipal Council before winning the seat of Woolloongabba for Labour at the 1896 Queensland colonial election. [4] He held the seat until 1907,when Dibley,by then a member of the Kidstonites,lost his seat to the Opposition Party's George Blocksidge. [5]
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