Thomas Moffatt

{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{distinguish|text=English naturalist Thomas Muffet}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Hon | name = Thomas de Lacy Moffatt | image = SLQ Thomas de Lacy Moffat.jpg | caption = | order1 = 2nd | office1 = Treasurer of Queensland | term_start1 = 4 Aug 1862 | term_end1 = 2 Oct 1864 | predecessor1 = Robert Mackenzie | successor1 = Joshua Bell | constituency1 = Western Downs | majority =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1824|4|17|df=y}} | birth_place = Athlone, Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1864|10|2|1824|4|17|df=y}} | death_place = Ipswich, Queensland | party = | spouse = Mary Isabella Bell | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Grazier, Squatter | profession = }}

'''Thomas de Lacy Moffatt''' (17 April 1824 – 2 October 1864),<ref name=cmg>[http://genealogy.clanmoffat.org/getperson.php?personID=I28492&tree=UKEire Hon. Thomas de Lacy MOFFATT] — Clan Moffat Genealogy. Retrieved 4 January 2015.</ref> was a politician in colonial Queensland, and a Treasurer of Queensland.<ref name =Mennell>{{cite Australasia|Moffatt, Hon. Thomas de Lacy}}</ref> His surname is also sometimes spelled "'''Moffat'''".

==Early life== Moffatt was born in 1824 in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland, the son of James Moffatt, the rector of Athlone, and his wife Elizabeth ''née'' Kellett.<ref> {{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=Beverley |last=Kingston |title=Moffatt, Thomas de Lacy (1826–1864) |id2=moffatt-thomas-de-lacy-4216 |accessed 17 January 2014 }}</ref> He set out for Australia in 1844 and worked with his uncle, Captain R. G. Moffatt, a former magistrate and commander of the military police in Port Stephens<ref>{{cite book|title=In the Service of the Company: Letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural Company. December 1829 - June 1832, Volume 1|year=2005|publisher=ANU Press|isbn=9781920942298|page=ix}}</ref> who by that time had turned his attention to agriculture and sheep farming.<ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.jenwilletts.com/Australian%20Agricultural%20Company.htm |title=Australian Agricultural Company |accessdate=16 January 2014 }}</ref> He later moved north and became a squatter, establishing a station called "Callandoon" on the Darling Downs. He sold the station in 1849 and moved to the town of Drayton.<ref name="Mennell" /> In 1852, the pastoral run ''Woondul'' was transferred from Moffat to Henry Stuart Russell.<ref>{{cite news |date=20 July 1852 |title=TRANSFER OF RUNS. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230051503 |access-date=28 July 2019 |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |location=New South Wales, Australia |page=1115 |via=National Library of Australia |issue=73}}</ref>

==Political career== Moffatt was elected to the first Legislative Assembly of Queensland on 27 April 1860 for the district of Western Downs.<ref name =Mennell/> Moffatt became Colonial Treasurer in the first Robert Herbert Ministry on 4 August 1862, and retained this post till his death on 2 October 1864.<ref name=parl> {{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=174 |title=Moffatt, Thomas de Lacy |work=Former Members |publisher=Parliament of Queensland }}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | title=Treasurer of Queensland | before=Robert Mackenzie | after=Joshua Bell | years=1862–1864}} {{s-par|au-qld }} {{s-new|seat}} {{s-ttl |title = Member for Western Downs|years=1860–1864|alongside=James Taylor}} {{s-aft | after = John Watts}} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moffatt, Thomas de Lacy}} Category:1824 births Category:1864 deaths Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Category:Treasurers of Queensland Category:Politicians from the Colony of Queensland Category:Irish emigrants to colonial Australia Category:19th-century Australian politicians Category:People from Athlone