Thomas Price | |
Constituency Am1: | Wide Bay |
Assembly1: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start1: | 23 Nov 1878 |
Term End1: | 7 Sep 1883 |
Predecessor1: | Henry King |
Successor1: | Matthew Mellor |
Alongside1: | William Bailey |
Birth Date: | 1840 |
Birth Place: | Ilfracombe, Devonshire, England |
Death Date: | 4 April 1906 (aged 65 or 66) |
Death Place: | Albion, Queensland, Australia |
Birthname: | Thomas Price |
Nationality: | English Australian |
Spouse: | Elizabeth Grice (m.1870 d.1933) |
Occupation: | Builder |
Thomas Price (1840–1906) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[1] Price was the member for the Electoral District of Wide Bay from November 1878 to September 1883.
He was born in 1840 in Ilfracombe, Devonshire, England to Thomas Price and Elizabeth (née Banter). He died on 4 April 1906 in Albion, Brisbane, Queensland. He married Elizabeth Grice (died 1933)[2] on 27 December 1870, and had 4 sons and 3 daughters.
Price was a builder and contractor who acquired a Tiaro grazing property in 1890.
According to an article in the Melbourne Age he was fined 40 shillings for drunkenness and disturbing the services of the salvation army.[3]