John Malbon Thompson
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix =
|name = John Thompson
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| constituency_AM1 = Town of Ipswich
| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start1 = 26 September 1868
| term_end1 = 14 November 1873
| predecessor1 = Henry Challinor
| successor1 = Seat abolished
| alongside1 = John Murphy, Benjamin Cribb, Henry Williams, John Johnston, Arthur Macalister
| term_start2 = 15 November 1878
| term_end2 = 27 July 1881
| predecessor2 = George Thorn Jr.
| successor2 = Josiah Francis
| alongside2 = John MacFarlane
| constituency_AM3 = Bremer
| assembly3 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start3 = 25 November 1873
| term_end3 = 15 November 1878
| predecessor3 = New seat
| successor3 = Seat abolished
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1830|12|24|df=y}}
|birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1908|5|30|1830|12|24|df=y}}
|death_place = Neutral Bay, New South Wales
|restingplace = Waverley Cemetery
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|nationality = Australian
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|spouse = Clara Georgiana Bedwell (m.1863 d.1864) Louisa Gadsden (m.1867 d.?), Mary Harriett Montague Russell (m.1896)
| occupation = Solicitor, Barrister
| relations =
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John Malbon Thompson (24 December 1830 – 30 May 1908) was an Australian lawyer and politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
{{Australian Dictionary of Biography
|first=H. J.
|last=Gibbney
|title=Thompson, John Malbon (1830–1908)
|id2=thompson-john-malbon-4712
|accessdate=12 February 2013
}}
Early life
Thompson was the son of John Thompson, sometime Deputy Surveyor-General for New South Wales, by his marriage with the daughter of Charles Windeyer.{{cite Australasia|Thompson, Hon. John Malbon}} He was born in Sydney and educated at William Timothy Cape's Grammar School.
Career
Thompson was admitted an attorney and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1855, and removing to Queensland, where he was admitted to the bar in June 1880, practised at Ipswich, Queensland, for which town he was returned to the Assembly in 1868. Whilst representing this constituency he was Chairman of Committees for two years, Secretary for Lands in the Arthur Palmer Ministry from May 1870 to July 1873, and Secretary for Public Works from the latter date till January 1874, when the Government retired. He was Minister of Justice and Queensland in the first Thomas McIlwraith ministry from January to May 1879. During his tenure of office as Minister of Lands he carried the Homestead Areas Bill, and did a good deal to stop the "dummying" of the State lands. Thompson wife's health worsened, he resigned from parliament on 27 August 1881 and resumed the practice of his profession as a solicitor in Sydney. Thompson married Mary Harriett Montague Russell on 9 December 1896.
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{{s-ttl|title=Member for Bremer|years=1873–1878}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Member for Ipswich|years=1878–1881|alongside=John MacFarlane}}
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Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Category:Attorneys-general of Queensland