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
New South Wales
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in the early 1840s. He settled near the
Clarence River, becoming a prominent local businessman and mayor at
Grafton Grafton may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Grafton, New South Wales
Canada
* Grafton, New Brunswick
* Grafton, Nova Scotia
* Grafton, Ontario
England
* Grafton, Cheshire
* Grafton, Herefordshire
*Grafton, North Yorkshire
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. In 1856 he married Elizabeth Anne Hindmarsh; they had thirteen children. In 1869 he was elected to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
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for
Clarence Clarence may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Clarence County, New South Wales, a Cadastral division
* Clarence, New South Wales, a place near Lithgow
* Clarence River (New South Wales)
* Clarence Strait (Northern Territory)
* City of Clarence, a loca ...
, serving until his resignation in 1880. Bawden died at Grafton in 1897.
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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