Thomas Hellyer

Thomas Henry Hellyer was an Australian politician and solicitor.

Biography

He was born in 1840 at Bathurst, [New South Wales|Bathurst] to solicitor William Hellyer, and Margaret Gray. On 25 April 1862, he married Rose Anne Parfitt, with whom he had twelve children. A solicitor, he practised from 1867, first in Sydney, then in Parramatta from 1869, Bathurst from 1878, and Sydney again from 1885, sharing the same Sydney premises as his father.
He was the mayor of Bathurst for 1880, and 1881.
In 1882 he was a candidate for the New [South Wales Legislative Assembly]. He stood for Bathurst at the Results of the 1882 [New South Wales colonial election#Bathurst|election on Saturday 2 December], but was narrowly defeated with a margin of 16 votes, but was elected unopposed for the neighbouring district of West Macquarie the following week. He resigned in 1884 for unknown reasons.
Hellyer had a cancer removed, however it returned in December 1888, and he died at Liverpool in 1889.