Samuel Thomas Whiddon (26 June 1848 – 20 September 1905) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in

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to plasterer Samuel Whiddon and Sarah Fossey. The family migrated to

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

in 1853 and Whiddon worked as a messenger boy for T. Williams & Co., a boot manufacturing business that he eventually owned. In 1894 he was elected to the

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as the

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member for Sydney-Cook. He held the seat until his retirement in 1904. Whiddon died at

Glebe Glebe (; also known as church furlong, rectory manor or parson's close(s))McGurk 1970, p. 17 is an area of land within an ecclesiastical parish used to support a parish priest. The land may be owned by the church, or its profits may be reserved ...

in 1905.

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1848 births 1905 deaths Colony of New South Wales people Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Free Trade Party politicians 19th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-politician-stub