Thomas Dibley

Thomas Dibley
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for Woolloongabba
In office
28 March 1896 – 18 May 1907
Preceded byWilliam Stephens
Succeeded byGeorge Blocksidge
Personal details
Born
Thomas Dibley

1829
Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia
Died31 May 1912 (aged 82-83)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Resting placeBalmoral Cemetery
Political partyKidstonites
Other political
affiliations		Labour
SpouseMatilda Marie Gates (m.1867 d.1913)
OccupationButcher

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 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]

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

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "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. Vol. LII, no. 11, 921. Queensland, Australia. 30 March 1896. p. 5. Retrieved 27 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "WOOLLOONGABBA". Morning Bulletin. No. 13, 278. Queensland, Australia. 20 May 1907. p. 6. Retrieved 27 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
Preceded by Member for Woolloongabba
1896–1907 		Succeeded by