{{Short description|Butcher, politician and police magistrate in New South Wales, Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} '''Atkinson Alfred Patrick Tighe''' (3 March 1827{{spaced ndash}}13 June 1905) was an Australian politician, butcher and police magistrate.
He was born at sea near Corfu to Sergeant Robert Tighe of the 17th Regiment. He arrived in New South Wales around 1830, and by 1840 his father was chief constable and a publican at Newcastle. The younger Tighe established a slaughterhouse, and on 14 July 1859 married Arabella Vine, with whom he had seven children. A Newcastle alderman from 1859 to 1862 and from 1871 to 1873, he served as mayor from 1872 to 1873.<ref name="Atkinson Tighe ADB">{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |id2=tighe-atkinson-alfred-patrick-4723 |title=Tighe, Atkinson Alfred Patrick (1827–1905) |first=Dan |last=O'Donnell |volume=6 |year=1976 |access-date=2021-01-17}}</ref>
In 1862 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Northumberland, serving until 1869.<ref name="Green Northumberland">{{cite NSW election |title=Elections for the District of Northumberland |year=DistrictIndexes |district=Northumberland |access-date=2021-01-17}}</ref> During this period he served for a month (September – October 1868) as Postmaster-General. In 1873 he was appointed local coroner at Newcastle, and he was a police magistrate from 1874 to 1878.<ref name="Atkinson Tighe NSW parl"/> He returned to the Assembly in 1882 but resigned due to ill health in 1884.<ref name="Green Northumberland"/>
Tighe died at Glebe Point on {{death date and age|1905|6|13|1827|3|3|df=y}}.<ref name="Atkinson Tighe NSW parl">{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr Atkinson Alfred Patrick Tighe (1827-1905) |id=573 |former=Yes |access-date=21 May 2019}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|au-nsw}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=Joseph Docker}} {{s-ttl|title=Postmaster-General | years=Sep{{spaced ndash}}Oct 1868}} {{s-aft|after=Daniel Egan}} {{s-par|au-nsw-la}} {{s-bef|before=Thomas Lewis}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Northumberland | years=1862{{spaced ndash}}1869}} {{s-aft|after=William Brookes}} {{s-bef|before=Thomas Hungerford}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Northumberland | years=1882{{spaced ndash}}1884 | alongside=Ninian Melville}} {{s-aft|after=Richard Luscombe}} {{s-civ}} {{s-bef|before=James Hannell}} {{s-ttl|title=Mayor of Newcastle | years=1872{{spaced ndash}}1873}} {{s-aft|after= E. A. White}} {{s-end}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tighe, Atkinson}} Category:1827 births Category:1905 deaths Category:Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Category:19th-century Australian politicians Category:Mayors and lord mayors of Newcastle Category:People born at sea Category:Postmasters-general of New South Wales