Thomas Wilde Boothby (9 December 1839 – 19 June 1885),
[ This reference, alone, spells his middle (preferred) name "Wylde".] generally known by his full name, or as "T. Wilde Boothby", was a politician in the British colony of South Australia.
History
Boothby was born the seventh son of
Benjamin Boothby
Benjamin Boothby (5 February 1803 – 21 June 1868) was a South Australian colonial judge, who was removed from office for misbehaviour, one of four Australian supreme court judges removed in the 19th century. 01312 Macquarie Law Journal 21.
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(1803–1868) and most likely named for his father's friend and benefactor
Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro. He worked as a commission agent and auctioneer.
He and his brother James Henry Boothby took up a lease on a property on the
Coorong which they named
Tintinara
Tintinara is a town located in the Murray and Mallee region of the South East of South Australia.
The town is situated on the Dukes Highway and the Adelaide-Melbourne railway line. It is in The Coorong District Council local government area, t ...
.
He was a member of the
South Australian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide.
Overview
The House of Assembly was creat ...
seat of
Victoria from June 1873 to February 1875.
He moved from Naracoorte to Strathalbyn around 1873 and to Adelaide in 1874. His wife and two sons left Australia in January 1874. In 1878 he was declared insolvent.
He is perhaps best remembered as father of
Guy Boothby
Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known fo ...
(1867–1907) private secretary to Adelaide mayor
Lewis Cohen, traveller and author with a significant career in England, and of Ben Boothby (1870– ), artist and companion on Guy's journeys, and also a writer of popular fiction,
who completed several of his brother's unfinished stories,
and illustrated others.
He was by profession a land agent in
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions.
Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...
, London.
Family
Thomas Wilde Boothby married Mary Agnes Hodding (1843 – 16 July 1907) on 10 March 1864. Their family included:
*
Guy Newell Boothby
Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known fo ...
(13 October 1867 – 26 February 1907) private secretary to mayor, successful author in England. He also he wrote ''libretti'' for two comic operas ''Sylvia'' (1890, Adelaide) and ''The Jonquil'' (1891).
*Benjamin "Ben" Boothby (28 January 1870 – ), companion on Guy's journeys, was also a writer of popular fiction,
and completed several of his brother's unfinished stories.
and illustrated others.
He was in business land agent of
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions.
Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...
, London.
*youngest son Robert Cecil Boothby (7 July 1872 – ) married Constance Ellen Miall ( – ) on 2 June 1906. He was stockbroker of
Sydenham Sydenham may refer to:
Places Australia
* Sydenham, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
** Sydenham railway station, Sydney
* Sydenham, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne
** Sydenham railway line, the name of the Sunbury railway line, Melbourne un ...
, Kent.
See also
*
Hundred of Boothby
The County of Jervois is a cadastral unit in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It was proclaimed on 24 January 1878 and named after William Jervois, the Governor of South Australia ...
References
External links
* Includes details on William Robinson, Benjamin and Josiah Boothby
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Members of the South Australian House of Assembly
Australian real estate businesspeople
Australian auctioneers
Australian pastoralists
1839 births
1885 deaths
19th-century Australian politicians
19th-century Australian businesspeople