Full Name Thomas Dibley Political party Ministerial | Nationality Australian Other politicalaffiliations Labour Other political affiliation Australian Labor Party | |
Spouse(s) Matilda Marie Gates (m.1867 d.1913) Resting place | ||
Thomas Dibley (1829 - 31 May 1912) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
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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 the 30th September 1867 Dibley married Matilda Marie Gates (died 1913) at Ipswich and together had four sons and four daughters. He died in May 1912 and was buried in the Balmoral Cemetery.
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. 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.