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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Thomas_Moffatt > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Thomas_Moffatt.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Moffatt > Source revision: 1347143023 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Australian politician}} {{distinguish|text=English naturalist [Thomas Muffet](/source/Thomas_Muffet)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [The Hon](/source/The_Honourable) | 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](/source/Sir_Robert_Mackenzie%2C_10th_Baronet) | successor1 = [Joshua Bell](/source/Joshua_Peter_Bell) | constituency1 = [Western Downs](/source/Electoral_district_of_Western_Downs) | majority = | constituency_AM2 = [Western Downs](/source/Electoral_district_of_Western_Downs) | assembly2 = Queensland Legislative | term_start2 = 27 April 1860 | term_end2 = 2 October 1864 | predecessor2 = New seat | successor2 = [John Watts](/source/John_Watts_(Australian_politician)) | alongside2 = [James Taylor](/source/James_Taylor_(Queensland_politician)) | birth_date = {{birth date|1824|4|17|df=y}} | birth_place = [Athlone](/source/Athlone), [Ireland](/source/Ireland) | death_date = {{death date and age|1864|10|2|1824|4|17|df=y}} | death_place = [Ipswich, Queensland](/source/Ipswich%2C_Queensland) | party = | spouse = Mary Isabella Bell | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = [Grazier](/source/Pastoral_farming), [Squatter](/source/Squatting) | profession = }} '''Thomas de Lacy Moffatt''' (17 April 1824 – 2 October 1864),[http://genealogy.clanmoffat.org/getperson.php?personID=I28492&tree=UKEire Hon. Thomas de Lacy MOFFATT] — Clan Moffat Genealogy. Retrieved 4 January 2015. was a politician in colonial [Queensland](/source/Queensland), and a [Treasurer of Queensland](/source/Treasurer_of_Queensland).{{cite Australasia|Moffatt, Hon. Thomas de Lacy}} His surname is also sometimes spelled "'''Moffat'''". ==Early life== Moffatt was born in 1824 in [Athlone](/source/Athlone), [County Westmeath](/source/County_Westmeath), [Ireland](/source/Ireland), the son of James Moffatt, the [rector](/source/Rector_(ecclesiastical)) of Athlone, and his wife Elizabeth ''née'' Kellett. {{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 }} 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](/source/Port_Stephens_(New_South_Wales)){{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}} who by that time had turned his attention to agriculture and sheep farming. {{cite web |url=http://www.jenwilletts.com/Australian%20Agricultural%20Company.htm |title=Australian Agricultural Company |accessdate=16 January 2014 }} He later moved north and became a [squatter](/source/Squatting_(pastoral)), establishing a station called "Callandoon" on the [Darling Downs](/source/Darling_Downs). He sold the station in 1849 and moved to the town of [Drayton](/source/Drayton%2C_Queensland). In 1852, the pastoral run ''Woondul'' was transferred from Moffat to [Henry Stuart Russell](/source/Henry_Stuart_Russell).{{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](/source/New_South_Wales_Government_Gazette) |location=New South Wales, Australia |page=1115 |via=National Library of Australia |issue=73}} ==Political career== Moffatt was elected to the first [Legislative Assembly of Queensland](/source/Legislative_Assembly_of_Queensland) on 27 April 1860 for the [district of Western Downs](/source/Electoral_district_of_Western_Downs). Moffatt became Colonial Treasurer in the first [Robert Herbert](/source/Robert_Herbert) Ministry on 4 August 1862, and retained this post till his death on 2 October 1864. {{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 }} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | title=[Treasurer of Queensland](/source/Treasurer_of_Queensland) | before=[Robert Mackenzie](/source/Sir_Robert_Mackenzie%2C_10th_Baronet) | after=[Joshua Bell](/source/Joshua_Bell) | years=1862–1864}} {{s-par|au-qld }} {{s-new|seat}} {{s-ttl |title = Member for [Western Downs](/source/Electoral_district_of_Western_Downs)|years=1860–1864|alongside=[James Taylor](/source/James_Taylor_(Queensland_politician))}} {{s-aft | after = [John Watts](/source/John_Watts_(Australian_politician))}} {{s-end}} {{Treasurers of Queensland}} {{authority control}} {{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 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Thomas Moffatt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Moffatt) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Moffatt?action=history)). 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