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Thomas Augustus Green (1837–1927)

by Chris Cunneen

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Thomas Augustus Green (1837-1927) soldier, farmer, drayman, quarry-master and Labor activist

Birth: 1837 in Jersey, Channel Island, England, son of Bernard Green, farmer, and his wife Fanny. Marriage: 1859 at Concord, New South Wales, to Lydia Chipperfield (1837-1919), born in Clavering, Uttlesford, Essex, England. They had six sons and six daughters. Death: 16 August 1927 in private hospital at Rockdale, New South Wales. Religion: Anglican. 

  • Reputedly served in the Crimean war and was present at the bombardment of Sebastapol in 1854-1855.
  • Arrived in Australia about 1857. Claimed to have been involved in saving the only survivor [James Johnson] of the clipper Dunbar from its wreckage at Sydney, NSW, in August that year.
  • Spent two years in Queensland. After his marriage was a shepherd and farmer in the Carcoar district till about 1880.
  • Described as a drayman in 1889. Lived at Canterbury, Sydney, by 1895.
  • From about 1901 he was in business at Randwick with his sons Sydney Temple and Thomas Eli trading as Green Brothers, quarry-masters.
  • Lived at ‘Essex’ Susan Street, Randwick, near the family quarry.
  • Prominent in Labor circles in NSW.

Sources
Sue Tracey, Catherine Green and Ellen Webster – the first women in the NSW Legislative Council, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, The Hummer (Sydney), vol. 3 no. 1: https://www.labourhistory.org.au/hummer/vol-3-no-1/catherine-green/

Citation details

Chris Cunneen, 'Green, Thomas Augustus (1837–1927)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/green-thomas-augustus-32852/text40917, accessed 5 December 2024.

© Copyright People Australia, 2012

Life Summary [details]

Birth

1837
Jersey, Channel Islands

Death

16 August, 1927 (aged ~ 90)
Rockdale, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Occupation or Descriptor
Political Activism