Frederick Thomas Humphery (16 September 1841 – 10 April 1908) was an Australian politician. He was born at Oldbury near Berrima to settler Thomas Bott Humphery and Mary Ann Thorn. He attended private schools before becoming a commercial agent and estate manager. On 20 January 1875 he married Helena Annie King, with whom he had a son; a second marriage in 1881 to Lucy Alice Matilda King produced two daughters. In 1882 he was elected to the

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for

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, serving until his retirement in 1887. In 1888 he was appointed to the

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, where he remained until his death in

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in 1908.

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