Thomas Robert Roberts (26 June 1869 –1 June 1934) was a tinsmith and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. [1]
Roberts was born at Hucclecote,Gloucestershire,to parents Thomas Roberts and his wife Ann Matilda (née Eycott). [1] He was educated at the Church of England School in Hucclecote. His mother died when was around two years old and he was bought up by his uncle,Thomas Price and learnt the tinsmith trade. He arrived in Queensland in 1890 and opened his own business in Ruthven Street,Toowoomba,The City Dustpan,which he sold in 1926. [1]
On 7 December 1895 [1] he married Louise Augusta Muller (died 1947) [2] and together had one son and three daughters. [1] On 1 June 1934,he travelled to Southport,where he told friends there that he was on a visit for the day and to them he seemed in normal health. Later on into the night though,fishermen caught his body in their nets,about 200 yards from the shore. The police said there were no indications of foul play. [3] His body was taken back to Toowoomba and his funeral proceeded from St Luke's Church of England Church [4] to the Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery. [5]
Roberts was an alderman on the Toowoomba City Council for 10 years,including part of the time he spent in the Queensland Parliament. He was a Labour Movement member up until 1907 when William Kidston formed a coalition government whereupon he left the Labour Movement to follow Kidston and from then on supported the parties opposed to Labour. [1]
In 1907,Roberts won the two-member seat of Drayton &Toowoomba for the Ministerialists and held the seat until it was abolished in 1912 and replaced by East Toowoomba. He won the new seat and held it until his death in 1934. He was the Liberal whip in 1918,and,when his party won government in 1929,the Chairman of Committees until the government's defeat in 1932. [1]
He was Secretary,Trustee and State President of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and its Grand Master in 1901. He was also the Grand President in Queensland of the Royal Society of St George and a President of the Toowoomba Society for the Prevention of Cruelty. He was involved in many sporting organisations on the Darling Downs including women's hockey,both forms of rugby,and the rifle club. [1]
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This is a list of members of the 15th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1904 to 1907,as elected at the 1904 state election held on 27 August 1904.
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 18 May 1907 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The election was the first one in which women had a right to vote.
Frank Edwards Roberts was an Australian politician. He was Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1952 to 1955,and was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1947 to 1956,representing the electorate of Nundah. As with his predecessor as Mayor,John Beals Chandler,he was simultaneously Lord Mayor and a state MP. He represented Labor from 1947 to 1953 before resigning from the party;he was defeated for re-election as an independent for Lord Mayor in 1955 and as an MP in 1956.
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Donald Mackintosh was a farmer and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
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Vernon Charles Redwood was a maltster and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Edward Lithgow Smart was a plumber and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Leslie Arnold Wood was a school teacher and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was the Leader of the Opposition in Queensland for seven months in 1957–1958.
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