Thomas Edwards (Australian politician)

Thomas Tonkin Edwards (5 December 1875 – 27 September 1951) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Barossa from 1930 to 1933. He was elected as a member of the Labor Party, but was expelled from the party in the 1931 Labor split and sat with the splinter Parliamentary Labor Party for the remainder of his term.^[1]

He was a hotelkeeper at Tanunda prior to his election to parliament.^[2] He was defeated at the 1933 election,^[1] and unsuccessfully attempted to regain his seat later that year in a July by-election for his old seat.^[3]

References

1. "Thomas Edwards". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
2. "Men likely to lose seats". The Mail. 8 April 1933. p. 2. Retrieved 23 September 2017 – via Trove.
3. "Barossa by-election". Bunyip. 14 July 1933. p. 9. Retrieved 7 October 2016 – via Trove.