William Tooth | |
Constituency Mp: | United Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, Maranoa, Leichhardt and Port Curtis |
Term Start: | 12 February 1858 |
Term End: | 11 April 1859 |
Predecessor: | Patrick Leslie |
Successor: | Seat abolished |
Birth Date: | 1 January 1823 |
Birth Place: | Cranbrook, Kent, England |
Death Place: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia |
Restingplace: | Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery |
Party: | None |
Spouse: | Lucy Ann Harris (m.1850 d.1916) |
Children: | Nine children |
William Butler Tooth (1823-1876) was an English born Australian politician and pastoralist, who from 1858 - 1859 represented the Electoral district of United Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, Maranoa, Leichhardt and Port Curtis in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.[1]
He was the founder of the Union Club and was a member of the committees of the Sydney Club, the Society for Suppression of Cattle Stealing and the Agricultural Society of New South Wales.
Tooth married Lucy Ann Harris (died 1916)[2] in Sydney in 1850 and together had nine children. He died in Toowoomba[3] in 1876 and was buried in Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery.[4]