Thomas Bawden (1 December 1833 – 18 May 1897) was an English-born Australian politician. He was the son of William Bawden and Mary Williams, and he migrated to

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in the early 1840s. He settled near the Clarence River, becoming a prominent local businessman and mayor at Grafton. In 1856 he married Elizabeth Anne Hindmarsh; they had thirteen children. In 1869 he was elected to the

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for

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, serving until his resignation in 1880. Bawden died at Grafton in 1897.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bawden, Thomas 1833 births 1897 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians British emigrants to the Colony of New South Wales