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Mr Thomas James TYRRELL (1880 - 1942)

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Date of Birth: 14/04/1880
Place of Birth: Coonamble, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death: 31/10/1942
Place of Death: Earlwood, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
Position Start End Period Notes
Member of the NSW Legislative Council 23 Apr 1934 31 Oct 1942 8 years 6 months 9 days A Member of the indirectly elected Council 1934 - 1978. Date of Election 21 November 1933. A Member before reconstitution.
Member of the NSW Legislative Council 26 Aug 1925 22 Apr 1934 8 years 7 months 28 days Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 31 July 1925
Political Party Activity
Australian Labor Party (ALP), member of central executive 1916 - 1917, 1919 - 1923, vice president 1923 - 1926.
Community Activity
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Municipal employee and union secretary. Educated at Patrician Brothers' College; Redfern; employed by Sydney City Council, one of the founders of the Municipal Workers Union, originally confined to City Council employees, under his secretaryship 1912 - 1942 extended to the Federal Municipal and Shire Council Employees' Union of Australia., of which was the first president and later general secretary; member of Shire and Municipal Wages Board, of Local Government Superannuation Board; director of Labor Daily 1926 - 1937, managing director 1931 - 1933, chairman of directors, chairman of directors of Labor Motor Funerals Limited, Director of Century Newspapers; publisher of counsellor.
Military Service
Honours Received
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Personal
Son of Patrick Dunn, labourer, and his wife Isabella. Unmarried. Funeral in Roman Catholic cemetery at Botany.
Additional Information

The Parliament of New South Wales acknowledges and respects the traditional lands of all Aboriginal people, and pays respects to all Elders past and present. We acknowledge the Gadigal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which the Parliament of New South Wales stands.