Michael Thomas Phillips (c. 1851 – 22 February 1905) was an Australian politician.
He was born in
Hartley
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to innkeeper Patrick Phillips and Sarah Walsh. He was a solicitor, working at
Molong
Molong is a small town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia, in Cabonne Shire.
History
The name Molong comes from the Aboriginal word for 'all rocks'.
William Lee of Kelso is said to have had cattle in the area by 1819. H ...
(1877–85) and
Cowra (1885–1905). Around 1880 he married Elizabeth Agnes Finn at
Canowindra; they had nine children. In 1896 he was elected in a by-election to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the
Protectionist member for
Cowra, but he retired at the next election in 1898. Phillips died at Cowra in 1905.
References
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1850s births
1905 deaths
Lawyers from the Colony of New South Wales
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Protectionist Party politicians
19th-century Australian politicians