Thomas Hodges Mate (5 April 1810 – 22 July 1894) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born at

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, the son of Thomas Mate. He migrated to

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in 1833 and acquired a sheep and cattle farm on

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. On 8 February 1836 he married Maria Bardwell, with whom he had seven children; a second marriage in 1882 to Florence Brown would produce a further daughter. In 1850 he settled in

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, where he established a general store and later served as mayor and alderman. In 1860 he was elected to the

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for Hume, serving until his retirement in 1869. Mate died at Manly in 1894.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mate, Thomas 1810 births 1894 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians