John de Poix Tyrel (1840 – 15 July 1885) was a politician in

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, Australia. He was a Member of the

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Personal

Tyrel was born in 1840 in

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, England, the son of John de Poix Tyrel Snr. and Mary Christina (née Chapman). A member of the

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, he had a private education in London and Worcester and arrived in Queensland in 1864 and became the manager of the

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Sugar Plantation. In 1872 he was an auctioneer and commercial agent in

Stanthorpe Stanthorpe is a rural town and locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Stanthorpe had a population of 5,406 people. The area surrounding the town is known as the Granite Belt. Geography Stanthorpe lies on the New ...

. On 13 November 1880, Tyrel married Elizabeth, the widow of Charles Farley, on 13 November 1880, at Stanthorpe. He died there in July 1885.

Community involvement

He was elected a member of the

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in 1880 and a member of the Independent Order of Oddfellows in 1883.

Politics

Tyrel won the

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in January 1876 for the electorate of Carnarvon to replace William Miles, who had resigned in October the previous year. He went on to represent Carnavon until the

1883 Queensland colonial election Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland between 10 August 1883 and 30 October 1883 to elect the members of the state's Legislative Assembly. Key dates Due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold ...

when he retired from politics.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tyrel, John Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1840 births 1885 deaths Australian people of English descent 19th-century Australian politicians