death_date birth_date constituency_am term_end constituency death_place imagesize term_start order spouse image name predecessor birth_place assembly party office successor religion article_title
17 july 1900 17 may 1835 17 may 1835 warrego maranoa mulgrave brisbane north 13 5 january 1882 30 november 1888 27 march 1893 8 november august 1871 20 november 1878 5 june 1886 21 march 1883 1896 30 november 1888 27 october 1893 mulgrave north brisbane north brisbane north mulgrave brisbane north brisbane london , england 186px 21 21 january 1879 13 june 1888 12 august 1890 5 january january 1870 25 november 1873 21 november 1878 5 may 1879 1888 13 june 1888 27 march 1893 11th margaret mosman -lrb- 1879 -- 1900 -rrb- whannell -lrb- 1863 -- 1877 -rrb- harriette ann thomas mcilwraith.jpg sir thomas mcilwraith john samuel griffith john donaldson arthur hodgson william miles walter scott douglas new seat samuel griffith sir samuel griffith james dickson ayr , scotland queensland legislative queensland legislative queensland legislative queensland legislative ministerialist 8th premier of queensland treasurer of queensland samuel william pattison hugh nelson archibald buchanan james lalor walter adams griffith thomas macdonald-paterson boyd dunlop morehead hugh nelson archibald archer calvinist thomas mcilwraith

thomas mcilwraith

sir thomas mcilwraith -lrb- 17 may 1835 -- 17 july 1900 -rrb- was for many years the dominant figure of colonial politics in queensland .
he was premier of queensland from 1879 to 1883 , again in 1888 , and for a third time in 1893 .
in common with most politicians of his era , mcilwraith was an influential businessman , who combined his parliamentary career with a prosperous involvement in the pastoral industry .
