Person
Woore, Thomas (1804 - 1878)
- Born
- 29 January 1804
Londonderry, Ireland - Died
- 21 June 1878
Double Bay, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Surveyor and Pastoralist
Summary
Thomas Woore was a member of the Royal Navy in England from 1819 to 1934. Part of duties included hydrographic work which eventually brought him to Sydney. In 1939 he bought a station, Pomeroy, near Goulburn in New South Wales and became a leading pastoralist. Woore undertook survey work for the proposed railway at his own expense, for which he received no compensation. In 1867-1869 he was a member of the commission on the water-supply of Sydney and its suburbs and in his minority report vainly suggested building a dam at Warragamba.
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Abbott, G. J., 'Woore, Thomas (1804-1878), naval officer, surveyor and pastoralist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z, Bede Nairn, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 439-440. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/woore-thomas-4888. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7795304. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/92800761. Details
- 'Woore, Thomas (1804-1878)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-539449. Details
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Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 25 February 2020