Atkinson Alfred Patrick Tighe (3 March 182713 June 1905) was an Australian politician, butcher and police magistrate. He was born at sea near

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to Sergeant Robert Tighe of the 17th Regiment. He arrived in

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around 1830, and by 1840 his father was chief constable and a publican at

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. The younger Tighe established a slaughterhouse, and on 14 July 1859 married Arabella Vine, with whom he had seven children. A Newcastle alderman from 1859 to 1862 and from 1871 to 1873, he served as mayor from 1872 to 1873. In 1862 he was elected to the

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for

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, serving until 1869. During this period he served for a month (September – October 1868) as

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. In 1873 he was appointed local coroner at Newcastle, and he was a police magistrate from 1874 to 1878. He returned to the Assembly in 1882 but resigned due to ill health in 1884. Tighe died at

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on .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tighe, Atkinson 1827 births 1905 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians Mayors and lord mayors of Newcastle People born at sea Postmasters-general of New South Wales