Frank Timson
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Thomas Frank Timson Template:Post-nominals (9 February 1909 – 16 October 1960) was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was educated at Caulfield Grammar School and Wesley College before becoming the director of the Timson Trading Company, a Melbourne importing and exporting firm. He served in the military 1940–1945. He was awarded the MBE in the military division and, having enlisted as a Private in 1940, was discharged from the AIF in 1945 with the rank of Major. In 1949, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Liberal member for the new seat of Higinbotham. He held the seat until his death in 1960.[1]
Timson died on 16 October 1960 while leading an Australian parliamentary goodwill mission to South Korea, following on from the conference of the International Parliamentary Union in Tokyo. He suffered a fatal heart attack in his hotel room in Seoul.[2][3][4]
See also
Footnotes
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
References
- "New Members of Parliament", The Canberra Times, Monday 30 January 1950.[1]
- Pages with script errors
- 1909 births
- 1960 deaths
- Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia
- Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Higinbotham
- Members of the Australian House of Representatives
- Australian Members of the Order of the British Empire
- People educated at Caulfield Grammar School
- Politicians from Melbourne
- Australian MPs 1949–1951
- Australian MPs 1951–1954
- Australian MPs 1954–1955
- Australian MPs 1955–1958
- Australian MPs 1958–1961