Thomas Dibley
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
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|name = Thomas Dibley
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| constituency_AM1 = Woolloongabba
| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start1 = 28 March 1896
| term_end1 = 18 May 1907
| predecessor1 = William Stephens
| successor1 = George Blocksidge
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|birth_date = 1829
|birth_place = Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia
|death_date = 31 May 1912 (aged 82-83)
|death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
|restingplace = Balmoral Cemetery
|birthname = Thomas Dibley
|nationality = Australian
|party = Kidstonites
|otherparty = Labour
|spouse = Matilda Marie Gates (m.1867 d.1913)
|known_for =
| occupation = Butcher
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Thomas Dibley (1829 - 31 May 1912) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=2103083139|accessdate=27 April 2016}}
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.
On 30 September 1867 Dibley married Matilda Marie Gates (died 1913)[https://www.qld.gov.au/law/births-deaths-marriages-and-divorces/family-history-research/ Family history research] — Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 27 April 2016. at Ipswich and together had four sons and four daughters. He died in May 1912 and was buried in the Balmoral Cemetery.[https://graves.brisbane.qld.gov.au/ Deceased Search] — Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
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.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3622208 |title=GENERAL ELECTION. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |volume=LII |issue=11,921 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=30 March 1896 |accessdate=27 April 2016 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} 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.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53099549 |title=WOOLLOONGABBA. |newspaper=Morning Bulletin |issue=13,278 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=20 May 1907 |accessdate=27 April 2016 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}
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Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Category:Colony of Queensland people
Category:Burials in Balmoral Cemetery, Brisbane
Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland