Trevor Coomber

{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Trevor Coomber | honorific_suffix = | image = | caption = | constituency_AM1 = Currumbin | assembly1 = Queensland Legislative | term_start1 = 2 December 1989 | term_end1 = 19 September 1992 | predecessor1 = Leo Gately | successor1 = Merri Rose | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|6|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Charleville, Queensland, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | birth_name = Trevor McDougall Coomber | party = Liberal Party | other_party = | spouse = Kathryn Coomber | alma_mater = | occupation = Pharmacist | relations = }}

'''Trevor McDougall Coomber''' (born 13 June 1949) is a former Australian politician.

He was born in Charleville to schoolteacher Laurence Edward Coomber and Sybil Harding, ''née'' Lightbody, a secretary. He was educated at public schools in Pelican, Lowmead and Rosedale and at high schools in Bundaberg and Mount Gravatt. In 1970 he graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Pharmacy, and began work as a pharmacist in Brisbane. On 8 April 1972 he married Roberta Anne Richardson, also a pharmacist; they had four children before their separation. Coomber moved to the Gold Coast in 1973 and to Palm Beach in 1974, where he was a member of the Beach Protection Authority of Queensland and patron of several community groups.<ref name=BioReg>{{cite book|title=Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament, 1981–1992|last=Waterson|first=D.B.|publisher=Casket Publications|date=1993|page=14}}</ref>

A member of the Liberal Party since 1974, he resigned from the party in 1981 over retrospective taxation. In 1982 he was elected to Gold Coast City Council as a National, although he resigned from the party in 1986 after land development pressures on the Gold Coast led to a disagreement. During his tenure as an Alderman, he met and later married Kathryn Smith, a personal assistant. After an unsuccessful run for the state seat of Currumbin as an independent in 1986, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1989 as a Liberal. In 1992 he challenged National Party leader Rob Borbidge in Surfers Paradise, but was defeated.<ref name=BioReg/>

After leaving politics, he returned to community pharmacy, operating several pharmacies under the Terry White brand. His association with Terry White strengthened, to include holding a position on the group's Board. In 2018, Coomber's operating company entered administration and was eventually wound up by liquidators in 2019 with unsupported liabilities in the order of AU$19 million.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.insolvencynotices.com.au/notices/539b631b4be7ed74014bf89189a03fa9|title = Insolvency Notices}}</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Coomber, Trevor}} Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Category:People from the Gold Coast, Queensland Category:People from Charleville, Queensland Category:University of Queensland alumni