Person
Guest, Thomas Bibby (1830 - 1908)
- Born
- 15 November 1830
Chester, Cheshire, England - Died
- 3 April 1908
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Manufacturer
Summary
Thomas Bibby Guest was a biscuit manufacturer who ran the Melbourne firm T. B. Guest and Company. In 1856 he received Victorian Industrial Society award for his biscuits which were received favourably at the London Exhibition of 1873. Guest's pattern for a machine for making Currant Luncheons was taken up by English biscuit machine manufacturers.
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Details
Born Chester, England, 15 November 1830. Died Melbourne, 3 April 1908. Arrived Sydney in Salacia 1852; to Melbourne; formed Barnes, Guest & Co., biscuit manufacturers (Became T.B. Guest & Co. 1858).
Published resources
Book Sections
- Hone, J. Ann, 'Guest, Thomas Bibby (1830-1908), biscuit manufacturer' in Australian dictionary of biography: supplement 1580 - 1980, with a name index to the Australian dictionary of biography to 1980, Christopher Cunneen, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005), p. 159. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/guest-thomas-bibby-12957. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21538513. Details
- 'Guest, Thomas Bibby (1830-1908)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464945. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_g.html. Details
- Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, A Settlement Amply Supplied: Food Technology in Nineteenth Century Australia (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1980), 332 pp. Details
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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 4 July 2012
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