Thomas Gordon Gibbons Dangar (27 November 1829 – 4 July 1890) was a squatter and politician in the

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. He was born in

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, the son of cooper Matthew John Gibbons and Charlotte Selina Hutchinson. His father died while he was very young and his mother married

Thomas Dangar Thomas Dangar (13 March 1808 – 13 March 1878) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born at St Neot in Cornwall to William Dangar and Judith Hooper. His obituary in The Sydney Morning Herald gives his date of birth as 13 Marc ...

, who raised the younger Thomas as his own son. He was educated at Sydney College, but did not read for the bar due to illness and became a squatter around the

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. In 1847 he moved to the

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district and became one of the area's pioneers, eventually settling at Bullerawa on the

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around 1850. He married Catherine Annabella Mackenzie, with whom he had a son. In 1865 he was elected to the

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as the member for Gwydir. He transferred to Namoi in 1880, and in 1885 unsuccessfully attempted to transfer back to Gwydir, losing his seat. He returned to the Assembly in 1887 as the

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member for Namoi, and held the seat until his death at Petersham on .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dangar, Tom 1829 births 1890 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Free Trade Party politicians 19th-century Australian politicians