About Samuel Whiddon
Lived 1848 – 1905 (aged 57). Samuel Whiddon was a politician.
Samuel Thomas Whiddon (26 June 1848 – 20 September 1905) was an English-born Australian politician.
He was born in London to plasterer Samuel Whiddon and Sarah Fossey. The family migrated to Sydney in 1853 and Whiddon worked as a messenger boy for T. Williams & Co., a boot manufacturing business that he eventually owned. In 1894 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Sydney-Cook. He held the seat until his retirement in 1904. Whiddon died at Glebe in 1905.
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Samuel Whiddon was born on 26 June 1848.
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