Thomas Dibley

Thomas Dibley
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
Nationality Australian
Political party Ministerial
Other political
affiliations
Labour
Spouse(s) Matilda Marie Gates (m.1867 d.1913)
Occupation Butcher
Religion Church of England

Thomas Dibley (1829 - 31 May 1912) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[1]

Biography

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 the 30th 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 of 1912[1] and was buried in the Balmoral Cemetery.[3]

Public life

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 Ministerial Party, lost his seat to the Opposition Party's George Blocksidge.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  2. Family history research Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  3. Deceased Search Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  4. "GENERAL ELECTION.". The Brisbane Courier LII, (11,921) (Queensland, Australia). 30 March 1896. p. 5. Retrieved 27 April 2016 via National Library of Australia.
  5. "WOOLLOONGABBA.". Morning Bulletin (13,278) (Queensland, Australia). 20 May 1907. p. 6. Retrieved 27 April 2016 via National Library of Australia.
Preceded by
William Stephens
Member for Woolloongabba
18961907
Succeeded by
George Blocksidge
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