Thomas Gordon Gibbons Dangar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetThomas Gordon Gibbons Dangar
Australian politician
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About Thomas Gordon Gibbons Dangar
- Thomas Gordon Gibbons Dangar (27 November 1829 – 4 July 1890) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney, the son of cooper Matthew John Gibbons and Charlotte Selina Hutchinson.
- His father died while he was very young and his mother married Thomas Dangar, who raised the younger Thomas as his own son.
- He was educated at Sydney College, but did not read for the bar due to illness and became a squatter around the Liverpool Plains.
- In 1847 he moved to the New England district and became one of the area's pioneers, eventually settling at Bullerawa on the Namoi River around 1850.
- He married Catherine Annabella Mackenzie, with whom he had a son.
- In 1865 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Gwydir.
- He transferred to Namoi in 1880, and in 1885 unsuccessfully attempted to transfer back to Gwydir, losing his seat.
- He returned to the Assembly in 1887 as the Free Trade member for Namoi, and held the seat until his death at Petersham in 1890.
Read more at Wikipedia