# Samuel Whiddon

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**Samuel Thomas Whiddon** (26 June 1848 – 20 September 1905) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born in London to plasterer Samuel Whiddon and Sarah Fossey. The family migrated to Sydney in 1853 and Whiddon worked as a messenger boy for T. Williams & Co., a boot manufacturing business that he eventually owned. In 1894 he was elected to the [New South Wales Legislative Assembly](/source/New_South_Wales_Legislative_Assembly) as the [Free Trade](/source/Free_Trade_Party) member for [Sydney-Cook](/source/Electoral_district_of_Sydney-Cook). He held the seat until his retirement in 1904. Whiddon died at [Glebe](/source/Glebe,_New_South_Wales) in 1905.[1]

## References

1. "Mr Samuel Thomas Whiddon (1848-1905)". 905. Retrieved 23 June 2019.

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