Thomas Chataway

Thomas Chataway
Senator for Queensland
In office 1 January 1907 – 30 June 1913
Personal details
Born	(1864-04-06)6 April 1864 Sussex, England
Died	5 March 1925(1925-03-05) (aged 60)
Nationality	English Australian
Political party	Anti-Socialist (1907–09) Liberal (1909–13)
Occupation	Grazier

Thomas Drinkwater Chataway (6 April 1864 – 5 March 1925) was an English-born Australian politician. Born in Sussex, he was educated at Charterhouse School before migrating to Australia in 1881, where he became a grazier and mill-owner in New South Wales and then Queensland. He was a leader among Queensland cane growers, sitting on Mackay Council and serving as mayor in 1904. In 1906 he was elected to the Australian Senate as an Anti-Socialist Senator for Queensland. He joined the Commonwealth Liberal Party when it formed in 1909. Chataway was defeated in 1913, after which he became a journalist in Melbourne. He died in 1925.^[1]

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