William Butler Tooth was an English born Australian politician and pastoralist, who from 1858–1859 represented the Electoral district of United Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, Maranoa, Leichhardt and Port Curtis in the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...

. He was the founder of the Union Club and was a member of the committees of the Sydney Club, the Society for Suppression of Cattle Stealing and the Agricultural Society of New South Wales. Tooth married Lucy Ann Harris (died 1916) in Sydney in 1850 and together had nine children. He died in

Toowoomba Toowoomba ( , nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar') is a city in the Toowoomba Region of the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. It is west of Queensland's capital city Brisbane by road. The urban population of Toowoomba as of the 2021 C ...

in 1876 and was buried in

Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at the corner of South Street and Anzac Avenue, Harristown, Queensland, Australia. It was surveyed in May 1850, and is one of the earliest surviving cemeteries in Queensland. The cem ...

.Deceased search
— Toowoomba Regional Council. Retrieved 4 January 2016.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tooth, William 1823 births 1876 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Burials in Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery 19th-century Australian politicians English emigrants to Australia People from Cranbrook, Kent