| Trevor Coomber | |
| Constituency Am1: | Currumbin |
| Assembly1: | Queensland Legislative |
| Term Start1: | 2 December 1989 |
| Term End1: | 19 September 1992 |
| Predecessor1: | Leo Gately |
| Successor1: | Merri Rose |
| Birth Date: | 13 June 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Charleville, Queensland, Australia |
| Birthname: | Trevor McDougall Coomber |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Party: | Liberal Party |
| Spouse: | Kathryn Coomber |
| Occupation: | Pharmacist |
Trevor McDougall Coomber (born 13 June 1949) is a former Australian politician.
He was born in Charleville to schoolteacher Laurence Edward Coomber and Sybil Harding, née Lightbody, a secretary. He was educated at public schools in Pelican, Lowmead and Rosedale and at high schools in Bundaberg and Mount Gravatt. In 1970 he graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Pharmacy, and began work as a pharmacist in Brisbane. On 8 April 1972 he married Roberta Anne Richardson, also a pharmacist; they had four children before their separation. Coomber moved to the Gold Coast in 1973 and to Palm Beach in 1974, where he was a member of the Beach Protection Authority of Queensland and patron of several community groups.[1]
A member of the Liberal Party since 1974, he resigned from the party in 1981 over retrospective taxation. In 1982 he was elected to Gold Coast City Council as a National, although he resigned from the party in 1986 after land development pressures on the Gold Coast led to a disagreement. During his tenure as an Alderman, he met and later married Kathryn Smith, a personal assistant. After an unsuccessful run for the state seat of Currumbin as an independent in 1986, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1989 as a Liberal. In 1992 he challenged National Party leader Rob Borbidge in Surfers Paradise, but was defeated.[1]
After leaving politics, he returned to community pharmacy, operating several pharmacies under the Terry White brand. His association with Terry White strengthened, to include holding a position on the group's Board. In 2018, Coomber's operating company entered administration and was eventually wound up by liquidators in 2019 with unsupported liabilities in the order of AU$19 million.[2]