Mr Thomas Howard MORROW (1888 - 1971)**

Date of Birth: 23/03/1888 Place of Birth: Ballimtra, Ireland Date of Death: 20/02/1971 Place of Death: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Parliamentary Service

Position Start End Period Notes Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly 25 Mar 1922 18 Apr 1925 3yr(s) 25day(s) Member for Parramatta 25 Mar 1922 18 Apr 1925 3yr(s) 25day(s) 26th (1922 - 1925)

Political Party Activity

Nationalist Party; councillor from 1930 until 1931.

Community Activity

Commissioned as a Justice of the Peace.

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Prisons employee, hospital attendant and railway employee. Educated at Civil Service Training College in Belfast; worked with prisons department; came to Australia in 1913; attendant at Parramatta Mental Hospital from 1913 until 1916; worked for Clyde Engineering Company; labourer at Darling Harbour railway yards from 1918 until 1920, then watchman until resignation to enter Parliament; lime and cement merchant until 1929, later became a contractor at Parramatta and a health inspector. Protestant Federation. Orangeman.

Personal

Son of Thomas Morrow, farmer, and Elizabeth Hill. Married Helen Mary Harvey on 21 May 1914 and had issue, 4 sons. Church of England. Funeral at Rookwood crematorium from St John's Church of England, Parramatta.

Additional Information

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